KARACHI, Dec 14: Family and relatives of a missing Baloch activist, Gowaram Saleh, staged a sit-in outside the Karachi Press Club and observed a token hunger strike to press the government locate/release the victim of ‘enforced disappearance’.

The wife and children were among his relatives who strongly protested the government’s indifferent attitude towards their agony, and demanded that they be informed of his whereabouts.

Holding placards and portraits of the victim, they raised slogans against the law enforcement agencies which, they alleged had taken him away and been keeping him in illegal confinement for many weeks.

They observed a token hunger from noon to 5pm.

A number of political and NGO activists visited the camp and expressed their solidarity with the aggrieved family.

Meanwhile, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has expressed concern over the disappearance of two Baloch political leaders in Karachi after they were picked up during a peaceful protest meeting on Dec 3 in Lyari area against the killing of the Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

The two leaders, BNP chief Ghulam Mohammad Baloch and JWP’s Sher Mohammad Baloch were scheduled to address the meeting that had to be put off due to a sudden rainfall. However, the law-enforcement agencies picked up the leaders.