QUETTA, Aug 11: A faction of the Baloch Student Organization, BSO-United group, has appealed to all human rights organizations and other institutions to take notice of the arrests of Baloch youths.

Chief of the group Imdad Baloch alleged in a statement here on Thursday that law enforcement agencies were taking Baloch youths and political workers into custody and taking them to undisclosed locations for ‘torture’.

Mr Baloch said he and other leaders of his faction of the BSO had been arrested in March from Karachi and later shifted to Quli Camp in Quetta and tortured. Later, he and three others were released, but Dr Allah Nazar Baloch, Akhtar Nadeem Baloch, Ali Nawaz Gohar and Gohram Baloch were still in their custody, he said.

For five months, nobody knew about their whereabouts. Despite repeated demand, the government was not disclosing the whereabouts of these BSO leaders, he added.

Mr Imdad Baloch said BSO and JWP leaders were observing a hunger strike unto death for eight days, against the arrest of the student leaders. Their condition was deteriorating day by day.

He said that on Aug 14, his faction of the BSO would hold a march towards the Governor House and he would offer to court arrest on this occasion as protest.

He announced that from the same day, the BSO would launch a campaign against settlers in Makran and would not allow them to run their business in the area until all the arrested Baloch youths and political workers were not released or produced before the court of law.