Islamabad/Quetta [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): While Pakistan celebrated Eid on Wednesday, the Baloch community protested nationwide to highlight enforced disappearances and other atrocities.
In numerous areas of Balochistan province, women and children actively participated in massive anti-Army rallies, chanting slogans such as “Baloch demands Justice.”
The Baloch Student Council Islamabad staged protests against enforced disappearances, harassment, and racial profiling of Baloch students in Punjab and Islamabad institutions.
It posted on X, stating that many students quit studies due to human rights violations. “Recent cases of profiling have led to disappearances. BSC’s ongoing peaceful campaign demands the safe recovery of missing students like Feroz, Ahmed Khan, and others kept in state custody.”
Today, on the occasion of Eid, the Baloch Student Council Islamabad has staged a protest rally against the enforced disappearances, systematic harassment, racial profiling, and surveillance of Baloch students in the universities and institutions of Punjab and Islamabad. Under… pic.twitter.com/PIE6ewSpDJ
— Baloch Students Council (Islamabad) (@BSCIslamabad) April 10, 2024
Prominent Baloch leader and activist Sammi Deen Baloch, in a social media post on platform ‘X’, highlighted, “Today, families of Baloch missing persons, along with victims of enforced disappearances in Islamabad, Karachi, and Balochistan, are protesting against state-sponsored human rights violations.”
It stated, “While people worldwide celebrate Eid at home, we Baloch take to the streets yet again, bearing our pain and suffering.”
کراچی : آج بلوچستان سمیت اسلام آباد کراچی میں جبری گمشدگیوں کے شکار بلوچ لاپتہ افراد کے لواحقین اور بلوچ عوام ریاست کی جانب سے انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کے خلاف اپنا احتجاج ریکارڈ کرا رہے ہیں
آج دنیا بھر میں عید کے اس پرمسرت دن کے حوالے سے گھروں میں بیٹھے ایک دوسرے کو عید کی… pic.twitter.com/lJxep7yU3l
— Sammi Deen Baloch (@SammiBaluch) April 10, 2024
The President of Baloch Voice Association, an NGO based in Paris, expressed on social media platform ‘X’, “#Balochistan on Eid Day. People demand freedom, liberty, and safe release of victims of enforced disappearances by the Pakistani Fascist Army.”
#Balochistan on Eid Day. People are asking for freedom, liberty, and safe release of victims of #enforceddisappeared people by #Pakistani fascist Army. pic.twitter.com/pnDUtE49yA
— Munir Mengal (@MMengal) April 10, 2024
Previously, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), alongside prominent social leaders including Mahrang Baloch and Sammi Deen Baloch, urged the people of Balochistan to join protests held on the sidelines of Eid.
These protests aimed to provide a platform for registering dissent and highlighting the aggression faced by the Baloch community by the Pakistani administration. (ANI)
