Munir Mengal

Muni Mengal is the head of Baloch Voice TV, a Balochi language television channel. On 4 April 2006, 3 months before the channel was due to launch, he went missing when he arrived at Karachi Airport from Bahrain. It later became clear that he had been abducted by Pakistani security agencies. He claims the military wanted him to stop his plans to launch his Balochi channel, and that General Pervez Musharraf personally approached him while in detention. He claims he was severely tortured by the security agencies while in their detention for 22 months.

References

• Police re-arrest Munir Mengal after he is cleared by Baluchistan High Court, Reporters Without Borders, 20 September 2007
• First Balochi TV channel by mid-June, Daily Times, 2 April 2006
• Arbitrary arrest/possible "disappearance"/fear of torture: Munir Mengal, Amnesty International, 13 April 2006
• Detention of Munir Mengal challenged
• Munir Mengal resurfaces on RCD Highway, Daily Times, 6 August 2007
• The man who survived Pakistan's Gestapo, The News International, 13 December 2008
• Police re-arrest TV manager Munir Mengal after he is cleared by Baluchistan High Court, IFEX, 21 September 2007
• Interview of Munir Mengal