Addressing a public meeting in Peshawar, PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen asked Baloch nation to fight together for Hayat Baloch and Karima.
Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement organised a public meeting in Peshawar on Sunday. In the meeting, the head of the organisation called to Baloch nation saying, “let’s fight together for Hayat Baloch and Karima Baloch.”
Karima Baloch was a prominent Baloch rights activist, died in Canada last December in mysterious circumstances. Her family and Baloch political factions claim that she has been murdered. They suspect Pakistani intelligence agencies’ involvement into the incident.
Whereas, Hayat Baloch was 25-year-old final-year BSC (Physiology) student in Karachi University, was killed by Pakistani security forces on 13 August after a bomb blast in Turbat city.
According to his parents; after the blast the personnel of Frontier Corps stormed into orchard, and started beating our son then they tied up his hands and feet and dragged him to the nearby road, where they shot him eight times, due to which he died on the spot.
Hayat Baloch’s murder by Pakistani forces, protests continue in Balochistan
While addressing the meeting, Manzoor Pashteen further sais that despite the state, its police, army and spies blocking the roads in various areas and trying to stop the people, Peshawar successfully held a rally today.
“Our guest Usman Kakar is sitting on the ground and Bajwa [Pakistan Army Chief] is sitting on a chair in a bungalow, made of our blood,” Pashteen said. He further went on saying that whenever Pashtuns ask for rights, these people [Pak-Army] refuse it, not with words but with the Pakistani flag. The PTM chief said that we have to learn from the life of Arman Loni that we should celebrate his anniversary daily, propagate his thoughts and ideology.
In his address, Pashteen said that he wants to tell the Baloch and Sindhis to come together and fight together to stop this oppressive and tyrannical state [Pakistan] from oppressing us.
“We are totally opposed to the ongoing war in Afghanistan,” he said. I want to say to the people of Afghanistan that we love you and these people cannot push back the Pakhtuns through oppression and cruelty.” He added.
He vowed that the struggle of PTM against Pakistan army will continue.
PTM is striving for “an end to enforced disappearances, killings and abuses of civilians, as well as for the military to abide by the constitution”. The Pakistani military has accused the PTM of having the support of Afghanistan and India and being involved in anti-state activities, which the party denies and terms those allegations as “government propaganda.”