On the day when the world observed International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, several Anti-Pakistan protests were held in different parts of the world.
In a show of solidarity with the people of Balochistan, a group of protesters gathered outside the Pakistan consulate in New York and protested against state-mandated enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
The protest was also held near the famous 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. They have urged the world to take serious action against Pakistan to end the enforced disappearance of innocent Baloch civilians.
Protesters accused the Pakistan Army of not only committing serious human rights violations in Balochistan, but they also said the army has now turned this into the standard operating procedure in other parts of the country as well.
The protesters were carrying posters demanding justice for those who have been abducted by the Pakistan Army and the dreaded Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). In Balochistan, the Pakistan army and its paramilitary forces are working as China’s mercenary to help solidify its ambitious Belt and Road initiative (BRI).
On 13 August gunned down a Baloch social media activist who had criticised the Pakistani policies in Balochistan.
Baloch student Hayat Baloch, a Baloch student who was doing this Master’s from Karachi University and hailed from the Turbat, Balochistan region was gunned down by paramilitary at point-blank range in his hometown. He had gone there to help with the COVID-19 and was planning to sit in for CSS exams. Pictures of his mother holding his dead corpse went viral as Pakistan received widespread condemnation.