LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday slammed the recent spate of enforced disappearances involving Baloch students and activists in Karachi.
In a statement, it had demanded that these student activists and human rights defenders should be accorded due process if they were suspected of any crime, or be immediately released by the security forces that have detained them.
It further said, “HRCP is gravely concerned about the fact that security personnel raided a house in Karachi a few days ago and arrested four Baloch student leaders of BSO ‘Azad’ and BNM: Sanaullah (aka Ezzat Baloch), Hassan (aka Nodaan), Naseer Ahmed (aka Chiraag) and Rafeeq Baloch (aka Kambar).
Another student, Sagheer Ahmed, was picked up from the Karachi University canteen. Furthermore, over the weekend, a Baloch social and human rights activist Akbar Ali Gabol was picked up from his house in Gulshan-e-Iqbal at midnight.
HRCP demanded that if any of these students were suspected of any crime, the charges against that individual must be laid out and he must be produced in court without delay while being afforded all due process rights. However, if he had not done anything wrong, he must be immediately released, they demanded.