The face of the ongoing Baloch protests in Pakistan Mahrang Baloch has said the shutter-down strike in the province is a message to the state to take seriously the demands of the ongoing movement against the Baloch genocide.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), which has been organising these protests, voiced its dissatisfaction over the government's response in a statement shared on social media, according to The Balochistan Post report.
Israeli representatives will appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague next week to challenge South Africa's "blood libel" accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Responding to the media on the issue of police violence against Baloch protesters in Islamabad, the caretaker premier said that some of the people--media persons included--were trying to "mislead everyone, turning themselves into fake heroes of human rights and damaging the state".
Pakistan's caretaker minister for parliamentary affairs, information, and broadcasting, Murtaza Solangi ruled out the possibility that the elections, which are set for February 8 this year, would be postponed.
Baloch activists in Pakistan have now called on the United Nations to carry out further probe into the ongoing 'genocide' in a social media campaign, raising the hashtag "#UNForBalochistan," the Balochistan Post reported.
The acting prime minister of Pakistan, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, stated on Monday that the issue of Baloch families from Balochistan was being portrayed negatively and in stark contrast to reality since the Baloch people supported the state of Pakistan, ARY News reported.
The Baloch Yakjahti Committee - Kech's sit-in against "the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings" at Islamabad's National Press Club entered its 37th day on Monday
As South Africa files a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has rejected the "blood libel" spread by South Africa and its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Mahrang Baloch, the face of the movement who advocates an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the Baloch community, outlined a series of demands during a press conference in Islamabad.
Amid the ongoing protests by Baloch activists against 'enforced disappearances' and alleged extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani forces, Zaheer Baloch, a PhD student has been released by Islamabad police after a five-day disappearance, reported The Balochistan Post on Thursday.