KARACHI, July 27: Family members of many Baloch activists, who have either gone missing amid the ongoing military operation in Balochistan or picked up by security agencies for their alleged links with the banned Baloch Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front, continued their sit-in outside the Karachi Press Club.

Among the aggrieved people are relatives of JWP leaders Salim Baloch and Saeed Brohi and mother of Gwaram Saleh and Brahim Saleh.

The Saleh brothers’ mother said she her sons had disappeared more than two months back and she was sure they had been picked up by agency people. She moaned that despite her complain, appeals and constant protest ever the past two months, the rulers remained unmoved as she was not being informed of her sons’ whereabouts. She regretted that Baloch people were being treated like ‘slaves’ and being denied justice and it seemed if there was no law and Constitution in this country.

She argued that her sons might be put to trial if they had been accused of indulging in any criminal activity. The rulers, she alleged, had adopted a biased and negative attitude toward the Baloch population across the country.

She appealed to all international human rights organisations and media to look into the gross violation of human rights by the rulers, particularly the inhuman treatment being meted out to Baloch political activists in Pakistan.