Balochistan: Pakistani forces kill two pro-freedom Baloch youth

QUETTA: Pakistan military-backed death squads killed two Baloch graduates from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad in district Kalat Balochistan on Saturday.

Shahdad Baloch and Ehsan Baloch were critical of the Pakistani establishment for exploitation of the natural resources and gross human rights violations in Balochistan.

Sources reveal that they both were brilliant students and were forced to join a pro-freedom armed outfit a year ago because of continuous discrimination and brutality against the Baloch nation.

Abdullah Abbas Baluch, a human rights activist told ANI, “I came to know about Shahdad from his pictures circulated on social media a few years ago. He was humiliated and beaten up when he complained about discriminatory treatment towards Baloch students in Punjab. He was also a victim of torture and enforced disappearance.”

Jamal Baloch, a journalist based in Balochistan, remembered how Shahdad raised questions about discrimination against Baloch at a talk show on television. He tweeted, “Shaheed Shahdad Baloch on #CapitalTalk. “Reko Dik, Saindak and Sui Gas all these projects couldn’t change the fate of Balochistan & its people, how can #CPEC change the fate of Balochistan?” Pakistan Army killed Shahdad yesterday and its 2020 but didn’t get his answer”.

Sources also said that Shahdad, an MPhil graduate, was kidnapped by security forces in March 2015 and released after torturing.