QUETTA, Jan 10: Baloch Students Organization leaders Dr Allah Nazar Baloch, Ali Nawaz Gohar and Akhtar Nadeem Baloch have called upon the government to release their members arrested in Karachi on March 24.

Speaking at a press conference, they said that if the arrested persons were alive then they should be produced before a court of law and if killed then their bodies should be handed over to them.

They said a Sindh High Court bench had on June 4 directed the home secretary of the Sindh government to produce the detainees in the court and demanded compliance with the court’s directive.

Those who spoke at the press conference included the elder brother of Dr Nazar and Mr Gohar, Safar Khan Baloch, and father of Mr Nadeem, Lal Bakhsh Baloch.

They said they would never bow before rulers to beg for release of their children and added that they only wanted that the government should tell them the truth. They stated that seven members of the BSO were arrested in Karachi on March 24 but four of them were released after two months.