BRP organised a protest demonstration to end its week-long awareness campaign

LONDON: The Baloch Republican Party held a protest demonstration on Saturday at the end of their seven-day awareness campaign in London.

The BRP started a week-long awareness campaign on 19^th of January and on the last day 26^th of January the party organised a demonstration outside the official residence of British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street Whitehall, London.

The activists of Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) have also joined the BRP protest against ongoing enforced-disappearances, military offensives in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and other human rights violations.

The BRP central leader Mansoor Baloch has urged the UK government to take notice of human rights violations in Balochistan and practically intervene to pressurise Pakistani government for the release of thousands of Baloch missing persons.

Faiz Mohammed Baluch, an activist of Free Balochistan Movement, said that the UK should halt any kind of funding and military aid to Pakistan. ‘The foreign aid that Pakistan receives for countering so-called terrorism is directly being used to kill secular Baloch, Sindhi and Pashtuns. That’s why UK and rest of the Western nations should stop supporting Pakistan,’ he added.

He said that Baloch people have never accepted Pakistan and will never want to be a part of Pakistan and added ‘the Baloch struggle is for the complete independence.’

London-based Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activist, Falak Niyaz Khan, expressed solidarity with BRP activists on a successful awareness campaign and said that Pashtuns were going through a similar phase. ‘Pashtuns are also being abducted, killed and dumped’, he added.

He said that “Pashtuns are also missing in thousands hence we feel the pain of the Baloch people. The demands of the Baloch and Pashtun people are not outside the circle of Pakistan’s constitution; rather, the Baloch and Pashtun are simply asking for their basic rights to their resources. Hence Pakistan army is disappearing Baloch and Pashtuns.”

Speakers also included Abdulla Baluch a leader of Balochistan Raaji Zrombesh and Mehrab Sarju a Baloch rights activists and blogger.

Meanwhile, Switzerland based leader of the BRP, Sher Mohammad Bugti, thanked the activists of FBM, PTM for taking part in his party’s demonstration and said that BRP will continue to raise the Baloch plight at every possible forum.

He further said that the state’s policy of abductions, kill and dump has completely failed. Baloch will not back off from their basic demands and we appeal all the European Union member states to take notice of gross human rights violations and take practical steps to put an end to state atrocities in Balochistan.