Student Ghamshad Baloch, Doda Ellahi, and Nasarullah Baloch of non-profit Voice of Balochistan Missing Persons came home on Tuesday, according to Nasarullah Baloch, the organization’s head.
Students returned to their homes in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Pakistan, around 3 a.m., according to an activist. They both hail from Balochistan’s Kech area, he said.
Doda’s brothers, Shayhaq and Huda Hair Ellahi, had tweeted earlier in the day that their brother and his friend had been “safely freed.”. Also, Shayhaq uploaded pictures of the two of them. The accounts belonged to Doda’s family members.
Both of them thanked God and all the individuals who stood with the family through the tough period.
Outside the Sindh Assembly, demonstrators
The event comes a day after family, activists and friends of the two students were violently removed by police, and 28 of them were temporarily detained from outside the main entrance of the Sindh Assembly in Karachi.
They had gathered to voice their displeasure at the “arrests” of the duo. For the last four days, protesters have set up camp outside the Karachi Press Club.
The police action was highly denounced, when images surfaced showing police officers pulling nonviolent protestors and cramming them in police vehicles.
South-SSP Asad Raza informed Dawn that the police apprehended 19 males and nine women as they sought to enter the parliament building. The officer disputed that demonstrators were handled forcefully. He stated that lady police officers had apprehended female protestors.
The protestors were eventually freed.
The demonstration organisers had accused the police of manhandling women and children. They stated the Sindh police had breached their promise of organising a meeting of the missing students’ family with Counter Terrorism Department officials on Monday. Therefore, they stated, they again organised a sit-in opposite the Sindh Assembly building, where the police manhandled and detained demonstrators.
Earlier, some 120-130 relatives and members of other groups, including activists Seemi Din Baloch, Abdul Wahab Baloch, Aamna Baloch, Naghma Sheikh and others, had marched from the KPC towards the parliament building where the budget session was continuing. They had staged a sit-in at the assembly’s gate as they passed along Sarwar Shaheed Road.
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