ISLAMABAD: Baloch Student Council (BSC) Islamabad on Wednesday claimed that students of their province had been facing profiling and harassment in Islamabad.

Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club (NPC), BSC leader Ikram Baloch and other council members said that Feroz Baloch, a student of Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, was allegedly abducted on May 11 in 2022, when he was heading towards university library.

They said that despite filing court cases and protest demonstration, still there is no clue of Feroz.

Similarly, they said after Feroz’s abduction, his class fellow Ahmed Khan Baloch, was also abducted from Balochistan.

The participants of the press conference announced to hold protest over the failure of the authorities to trace the missing student despite passage of two years.

They said the BSC would distribute pamphlets in educational institutions followed by protest on social media X on Friday before holding protest demonstration outside the NPC against alleged enforced disappearance on Saturday.

They claimed that people of Balochistan and students had been facing enforced disappearance for the last two decades.

They claimed that the Baloch students mainly in Islamabad and Punjab had been facing harassment by law enforcement agencies and because of this students were under mental agony, affecting their education.

They said if any student was indulged in any wrongdoing, he should be presented before court, but there is no justification of enforced disappearance, they said.

Published in Dawn, May 9th, 2024

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