The Voice for the Baloch Missing Persons staged a protest demonstration outside the Quetta Press Club on Monday. Women and children, family members and relatives of missing persons took out a rally carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans for the recovery of missing Baloch people and asking for their production before the court of law if they had committed a crime. According to the organisations chairman, Nasurallah Baloch, security forces raided the house of slain Habib Marri on March 1 in Sariab Mill area and whisked away 10 members of his family. “Marri was killed three month ago now his family is being targeted,” he said. He said the forces violated the sanctity of his house and harassed women, adding that as many as 60 fresh cases of missing person were reported in 2012 in Balochistan alone. The participants chanted slogans against the government and intelligence agencies accusing them of violating human rights in Balochistan. They demanded that the government should at least produce all the missing persons before the court of law, if it thought that they had committed any crime.
