The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) announced that it will carry out a sit-in protest on Tuesday, February 16th, on D-Chowk in Islamabad.
Sitting in the National Press Club, the VBMP activists, who have have been protesting in front of the press club for the past five days, annouced that they will carry out a sit-in protest on D-Chowk in Islamabad. They said that they will sit on the road until the prime minister of Pakistan doesn’t come to personally assure them of the safe recovery of their loved ones.
The VBMP activists said that for the last five days, neither the prime minister nor any of his representatives have visited the camp to negotiate with the protestors.
Pashtun activists, including prominent leaders of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement like Manzoor Pashteen, Mohsin Dawar and Afrasiab Khattak, visited the camp to express their solidarity to the families of the Baloch missing persons.
Former Senator Farhatullah Babar and other leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party also visited the protest camp on Monday. Baloch activist Haseeba Qambrani also travelled to Islamabad to join the protest and make her voice heard.
Addressing the gathering, she said that: “I have mourned the disappearance of my brothers to the point of exhaustion — our loved ones must be produced before the courts if they are culpable.”
She said that I am being forced to repeatedly profess that I am a civilian of this country, and that I want justice per the constitution of this country.
She further added that if the rulers cannot hear our voices, they can at least see our condition. We have travelled from Balochistan to Islamabad to make our voices heard and secure justice for our missing loved ones.