QUETTA, May 28: Women and children, under the auspices of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on Sunday took out a procession against extra-judicial killings, illegal arrests of political workers and abduction of children.

Protesters assembled outside the press club where speakers called upon the government to stop human rights violations in Balochistan.

HRCP (Balochistan chapter) chairperson Zahoor Ahmed Shahwani, Habib Jalib (BNP-M), Amanullah Kanrani (JWP), Haji Nazimuddin Kakar (ANP), Ali Asghar release committee chairman Nasrullah, Hafiza Karim and Fateh Marri addressed the gathering.

Mr Shahwani said that political workers were tortured in ATF sub-jail and extra-constitutional methods were adopted to suppress the fundamental and democratic rights of people.

He said that children’s kidnapping in the city had become a routine matter and police was playing a role of silent spectator.

He said that Ali Asghar, Saeedur Rehman, Munir Ahmed Mengal, Misri Khan and hundreds of others were missing. Children of Ali Asghar and Saeedur Rehman had set up hunger strike camps for many months but the government had not taken notice of the protest.

Mr Kanrani alleged that the federal government’s extra-constitutional methods had forced women and children to take to the streets and protest against the excesses.

Mr Jalib accused the government of arresting thousands of innocent Baloch youths, whereas law enforcement agencies were torturing detainees.

Hafiza Karim said that her brother Munir Mengal was arrested at Karachi airport while coming from Bahrain and said that if Munir had committed any crime then he should have been produced before the court to prove charges.

Fateh Khan Marri, nephew of Misri Khan Marri, said that his uncle was arrested by intelligence agencies and said that he was a sick person.