QUETTA, Aug 6: Turbat police have arrested 12 activists of the Baloch Students’ Organization and registered a case against them for creating law and order problem.

A Turbat police official said on Saturday that the activists had been produced before a judicial magistrate and sent to the district jail.

Those arrested are: Wasim Baloch, Ejaz Baloch, Hafiz Baloch, Irshad, Inyat, Jamil, Maqbool, Kaleem, Asham, Ghulam Sarwar, Asif and Siraj. The case against them has been registered under Sections 120, 123, 145, 149, 153, 353 and 501 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The BSO (United), in a statement, condemned the arrests and claimed that the activists of the organization had peacefully taken out a procession in support of their leader Sohrab Baloch, who had been is on hunger strike unto death for five days.

It said the hunger striker, who had been joined by Jamhoori Watan Party leader Ghaffar Sasoli, was demanding that the arrested political activists, including Dr Allah Nazar Baloch of the BSO, should be presented in a court.

The BSO vowed to continue its struggle despite the excesses of the oppressors and maintained that arrests, illegal detentions and raids on the houses of nationalist activists could not undermine the Baloch national movement.