August 07, 2007	Tuesday	Rajab 22, 1428

QUETTA, Aug 6: The missing managing director of the proposed Balochi TV channel, “Baloch Voice”, Munir Ahmed Mengal, has surfaced after more than a year. According to family sources, Munir was found on the RCD Highway, near Kalat, on Sunday evening but local police immediately arrested him and detained him in the Khuzdar jail under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.

He had been arrested at the Karachi Airport on his return from Bahrain last year but his whereabouts could not be known for months.

After he went missing, his family members, journalist organisations, party workers and other organisations strongly protested and observed hunger strike in Karachi, Quetta and Islamabad.

The authorities concerned took Munir Mengal to a hotel in Karachi where a meeting with his family was arranged. Munir advised his family to withdraw the petition from the Sindh High Court.

His family withdrew the petition but he was not released.