Balochistan: Students announced to continue protest against abduction of colleagues

QUETTA: Various Student Organisations from Balochistan University in a joint press conference announced to reignite their protests as the government failed to meet their demands after a four-day ultimatum.

The students have been protesting against the abduction of their two colleagues by Pakistani security forces from the premises of the University of Balochistan in Quetta on November 1, 2021.

The government committee and the University administration had negotiated with protesting students and assured them to find out about the whereabouts of their abducted friends but they failed to locate the students and the four-day ultimatum has ended.

The Students in their press conference on Tuesday said, ‘We had put our two demands before the committee which were to recover our companion Agha Fasih and Sohail Baloch and present them before a court if they had committed any wrongdoing.’

They added that the fact that the committee failed to locate the abducted students is worrying and tragic. ‘What happened to the CCTV cameras at Balochistan University and cameras of other state institutions when our colleagues were abducted.’ they questioned.

The Students in their Press Release said that Pakistani forces have been continuously abducting Baloch students and other youth from Balochistan. ‘They abducted youth are kept incommunicado for years, tortured and killed under the custody of Pakistani forces. Their dead bodies are then found in desolated areas across Balochistan’

Reacting to the statement of the University registrar that there was no evidence about these students being abducted from the premises of the University, the students alleged that such statements from the varsity’s administration were tantamount to backing the abductors of students.

 They said the students from all over Balochistan have expressed concerns about the growing abduction of youth and assured their support to the protesting students outside the University of Balochistan.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the students from the University of Turbat Balochistan held a peace walk to express solidarity with the protesting students of Balochistan University.