Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) held simultaneous protests, rallies, and awareness campaigns in different cities of the world on Monday, against testing of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in Balochistan in 1998.
The protests were held on the 20th anniversary of the nuclear tests, codenamed Chagai-1. In the UK, the USA, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Canada, Norway and Sweden, the FBM activists highlighted the dangers of Pakistani nuclear weapons to Balochistan and to world peace. Protesters carried large banners and placards inscribed with slogans and pictures of affected people after the nuclear explosions.
In Germany, members of Afghan, Ahwazi Arab and Sindhi communities also participated in the FBM rally and demonstration while in Netherlands the activists of Baloch National Movement and Baloch Republican Party also joined and supported the FBM protest.
The FBM activists in other countries also expressed similar concerns and urged the respective countries of their residence to stop supporting Pakistan because the international support that Pakistan gets under different pretexts is being used against Baloch people and Western forces in Afghanistan.