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Instead of engagement, Mama Qadeer and his companions were
forcibly ‘deported’ from the capital, silenced, humiliated, and discarded.
Mama Qadeer’s struggle spanned over 6,000 days. He was threatened repeatedly, if he did not end his protest, he would
receive his son’s dead body. Security agencies frequently surveil his movements.
The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances has repeatedly called on Pakistan to investigate these cases, but accountability remains elusive.
A Legacy of Peaceful Defiance
Despite threats to his life and liberty, Mama Qadeer has refused to retreat. One of VBMP’s most significant
contributions was systematically documenting cases of enforced disappearances, something the
state had deliberately failed to do.
Mama Qadeer’s struggle was not confined to a tent.
In an extraordinary act of resistance, he walked over 2,000 kilometers on foot, from Quetta to
Karachi, and then from Karachi to Islamabad, accompanied by women, elderly parents, and
children of the disappeared.
When Sabeen
Mahmud, a Karachi based human rights activist, invited Mama Qadeer to speak about
Balochistan’s missing persons, she was murdered days later by ‘unknown men’. He was abducted from the front door of his home in Quetta on 13 February 2009. His life was not defined by power or privilege, but by extraordinary courage born from unbearable loss.
And we want justice.”
A Global Cause with Local Roots
In an era where forced disappearances are increasingly recognized as a crime under international law, Mama Qadeer’s work offers a vital case study.
By New Age Islam Staff Writer
22 December 2025
With the passing of Mama Qadeer Baloch, the Baloch nation, and indeed all those who believe in human dignity, has lost a towering moral figure.
This moment was not cruelty, it was a
conscious act of political inheritance.
Mama Qadeer’s personal tragedy ignited a movement. He chose resistance over
silence.
Three years after Jalil’s abduction, in 2012, Mama Qadeer received what he had been warned
about, the bullet riddled body of his son, dumped near the Pakistan Iran border in the Sarawan
region, far from where he was abducted.
He transformed personal grief into a lifelong struggle for justice, becoming one of the most enduring voices against enforced disappearances in Baluchistan.
A retired government servant, Mama Qadeer’s journey into activism began in 2009 with the enforced disappearance of his son, Shaheed Jalil (Jaleel) Reki. His demand was constitutional and
humane.
Doctors advised the family not to tell the child about his father’s disappearance, fearing
it would worsen his condition.
Yet Mama Qadeer made a painful, deliberate choice.
In later interviews, he recalled that when his grandson was five and a half years old, he took the
child by the hand, pulled him toward his father’s lifeless body, and said, “This is your father.
This moment of profound personal tragedy became a public reckoning: Mama Qadeer refused to stay silent.
Instead, he founded the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a grassroots organization that documents cases of enforced disappearances and supports the families of the missing. Situated beside the Quetta Press Club, in the very heart of the
provincial capital, the camp remains largely invisible, ignored by mainstream media, overlooked
by the public, and abandoned by the state.
This camp was established by Abdul Qadeer Baloch, affectionately and respectfully known as
Mama Qadeer, a man who transformed personal grief into collective resistance and became the
living symbol of the struggle against enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Mama Qadeer hailed from Surab district of Balochistan.
Her killing was
not an isolated act, it was a warning, do not listen, do not speak, do not write.
Yet even such terror failed to silence Mama Qadeer.
It was because of his relentless struggle that international organizations such as HRCP and
Amnesty International were compelled to take notice of enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Still, within Pakistan, the issue remains unresolved, deliberately unheard, systematically ignored.
Mama Qadeer knocked on every door imaginable, courts, parliament, media houses, and
international forums, asking for nothing extraordinary.
His legacy lives on, in
protest camps, in marches, in records, in grieving families, and in a generation that refuses to
forget.
History will remember him not merely as a father searching for his son, but as the father of
Balochistan’s resistance against enforced disappearances
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Mama Qadeer Baloch: The Father of Balochistan’s Struggle for theMissing Persons
By: Noor Baloch
A few meters away from the Balochistan High Court in Quetta stands a camp bearing a cruel
irony in its name, the “Missing Persons Camp.” It is physically close to the courts of justice, yet
infinitely distant from justice itself.
Witnesses including his friends, nearby shopkeepers and vegetable vendors and others in the neighbourhood mention that the abductors came in four unmarked cards with two Frontier Corps pickup trucks. Yet his legacy does not end with his passing. He was not intimidated. The incident was followed by protests from the students and faculty of the institute against the "academic censorship".
Following the cancellation, an event titled 'Unsilencing Balochistan Take 2: In Conversation with Mama Qadeer, Farzana Baloch and Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur' was held at T2F Karachi.
We want our children back — dead or alive.