QUETTA, Feb 15: The Baloch Students Organization said on Wednesday it would hold a series of rallies in the province from Feb 21 to create awareness among the Baloch people about ‘excesses of the state’.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club here, BSO chairman Amanullah Baloch and secretary-general Asif Baloch said that the organization’s central executive committee had decided to mobilize the Baloch people to play an effective role in the national struggle.

They alleged that thousands of Baloch people had been kidnapped and tortured by intelligence agencies.

Expressing determination not to accept what they termed slavery, they said that despite oppression, the Baloch people had been rendering sacrifices and resisting the state’s excesses.

Terming the Baloch struggle a national movement, they said anti-Baloch rulers were dubbing it terrorism to mislead the international community.