Pakistan: Baloch protesters camp outside Islamabad's National Press Club 'robbed'
A group of Baloch protesters who were encamped outside the National Press Club in Pakistan's Islamabad city to press authorities for the acceptance of their demands were robbed by unidentified men on Monday (December 25, 2023).
According to reports, the men took away the sound system.
Despite denial of any involvement or knowledge of the incident by the relevant authorities, including the Islamabad police and the ICT administration, social media was flooded with footage of plain-clothed people escaping the camp with the sound system in a white double-cabin vehicle, reported Dawn News.
We traveled 100s of KM & came to the capital of this state to protest against the #BalochGenocide, but you see the seriousness of this state. Instead of ending our genocide & HR violations, they attacked our camp at 3:15 AM, & stole our sound system.#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide pic.twitter.com/iolWKGfBPm
— Mahrang Baloch (@MahrangBaloch_) December 26, 2023
Activist Mahrang Baloch said the masked men entered the camp with guns.
“They harassed the people at the sit-in camp and stole the speaker and fled,” she was quoted as saying by Dawn Newsand added that all this was happening in the presence of the Islamabad police which had cordoned the area around the camp with barbed wires.
The recently installed surveillance cameras in front of the camp for ‘the security of the protesters’ were not working at night, police and ICT officials told Dawn News.
