QUETTA, Aug 5: The Anjuman Ittehad Marri on Sunday condemned the arrest of 25 tribesmen from the city’s New Kahan suburb and said oppression could not suppress the Baloch political movement led by Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri.

In a statement issued here, the organisation said personnel of the ISI, ATF, Rangers and police, who came in about 30 vehicles, encircled the New Kahan area the other day and started searching houses without fulfilling legal formalities.

It said the people arrested by the security forces were labourers, drivers and students and their fault was that they belonged to the Marri tribe.

It asserted that intelligence agencies had conducted several raids in New Kahan during the last seven years and had taken hundreds of innocent people in custody, who were tortured in secret cells.

The statement said the arrested people had not committed any crime, nor the intelligence agencies had been able to make them confess to involvement in some crime.