Widespread demonstrations have continued across various districts in Balochistan as part of the third phase of protests organized by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) against the “Baloch Genocide.”
On Tuesday, significant demonstrations were observed in regions including Mastung, Panjgur, Gwadar, and Kalat. The protests drew thousands of participants, comprising women, children, and relatives of individuals who have been forcibly disappeared.
Protesters carried images of missing persons and banners calling for an end to enforced disappearances and the recovery of those missing, purportedly at the hands of Pakistani forces.
In Mastung, speakers expressed concerns about the state’s response to the protests in Islamabad, alleging the mobilization of death squad members against the Baloch protest. They emphasized their demands for the recovery and legal presentation of the Baloch missing persons.
Panjgur saw hundreds of women, children, and men marching on the streets, showing solidarity with the Baloch protesters in Islamabad and conveying a message of unity. The participants accused the state of responding to the Baloch protest by assembling notorious death squad members in Islamabad, claiming that such actions will exacerbate the situation.
Meanwhile, in Gwadar’s Dasht Kuldan area, a notable rally involving school students and children was staged along the Makuran Coastal Highway. This rally echoed the sentiments expressed in other regions, supporting the broader movement against “Baloch Genocide.”
Similar demonstrations took place in Kalat and Mangocher, where protestors echoed the demands made at the Islamabad sit-in. They called for an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan.
These ongoing protests across Balochistan, part of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee’s third phase of protests, underscore a collective demand for ending enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, recovering missing persons, imposing constraints on the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), and dismantling the “state-sponsored death squads.”