DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 20: Four people the Sakhi Sarwar police claimed to have arrested here on Wednesday are leaders of the Baloch Students Organization who had been reportedly picked up by law-enforcement agencies in Karachi on March 24. Sakhi Sarwar police claimed the arrests had been made from near the Dera Ghazi Khan airport on ‘information’ provided by airport authorities that some suspects were present there.

The station house officer of the Sakhi Sarwar police station brought the suspects to the office of the district police officer late on Wednesday night. Police registered case under section 54 against Dr Imdad Baloch (BSO’s central chairman), Dr Yousif Baloch (central information secretary), Dr Naseem Baloch and Ghulam Rasool Baloch, and secured their three-day remand.

Their identity as BSO leaders was established when some local papers published their photographs. Those who knew them contacted local reporters who visited the police station and talked to the detainees who confirmed their identity but did not say how they had been arrested and brought here. “We will tell our ordeal after our release,” they told a journalist.