Quetta:
The family of Naveed Baloch staged a protest in front of the Quetta Press Club against Baloch’s enforced disappearance and demanded an inquest into the matter.
Earlier on Tuesday, Naveed Baloch’s family held a press conference in which they provided details about the police’s raid on their home. They said the police kicked through the front door of the house, searched the entire house, beaten some members, and eventually took Naveed Baloch with them.
They also said that the police refused to register FIR when the family approached them to report the incident, and the family has received no communication from the police as of today.
Footage of Naveed’s abduction by the CTD went viral on social media.
The raid on Naveed Baloch’s home was one of the hundreds carried out in Balochistan by the security forces of Pakistan in the last two decades.
During one such raid, on October 2, the CTD shot dead a boy as it raided the house to arrest the slain boy’s father. The incident sparked a series of protests across Balochistan but no arrests were made.
Naveed Baloch’s elder brother Amir Baloch was also subjected to enforced disappearance by the Pakistani security forces in the past. He reunited with the family after enduring two years in secret detention.
Naveed Baloch’s family has expressed serious concerns about his safety as the CTD is verifiably involved in extra-judicially killing the victims of enforced disappearances lately, giving rise to concern among the socio-political organizations in Balochistan over an increasingly militarized police force.
