Baloch Human Rights Organization set up hunger strike camp in front of Karachi Press Club against enforced disappearance of Nawaz Atta Baloch, the Information Secretary of Baloch Human Rights Organization and 8 other students for indefinite time period. Human rights activists and the families of abductees participated in the camp and demand the immediate release of all the abductees.
The representative of Baloch Human Rights Organization said that on October 28, rangers and plain clothed secret agents raided separate houses in Gulshan Iqbal, Gulshan Hadeed and Malir Kohi Goth and abducted several minor students and Information Secretary of Baloch Human Rights Organization, Nawaz Atta Baloch and shifted them to an unknown location. Enforced disappearance of human rights activists and innocent students is not only violations of international laws but also Pakistan’s constitution didn’t allow to abduct anyone without committing any crime. He further added that abduction of children and forcefully disappearing them is a very serious issue an above all the silence of Pakistan’s media, judiciary and human rights organizations is more grieving.
Enforced disappearance of 8 years old student is saddening and a step of serious human rights violation but the silence of media and civil society shows that all the institutions are considering this incident on the basis of ethnicity rather than considering a violation of human rights.
Baloch Human Rights Organization’s representative said that torturing of women and children and abduction of students is a matter of humanity. People from all walk of lives should equally raise their voice. He further added that if Sindh’s government and security forces didn’t release the abducted children and Nawaz Atta than we will expand our protest.
