New Delhi (NVI): A Baloch youth was shot dead in Kech district of Balochistan last evening by Pakistani forces, in retaliation to an alleged attack on them in Turbat city, according to a local media report.
The deceased, Mohammad Hayat, son of Mirza Baloch, was a final year student of University of Karachi’s department of Physiology.
The chairman of Baloch National Movement political party, Khalil Baloch, took to Twitter in this regard and stated, “#14AugustBlackDay – the Pakistani army shot dead Hayat Mirza, a young student of Karachi University, in front of his father in Kech Aapsar. Pakistan tries to prove that people from occupied nations are destined to die prematurely no matter how peaceful they are.”
#14AugustBlackDay – the Pakistani army shot dead Hayat Mirza, a young student of Karachi University, in front of his father in Kech Aapsar. Pakistan tries to prove that people from occupied nations are destined to die prematurely no matter how peaceful they are.
— Khalil Baloch (@ChairmanBNM) August 13, 2020
Earlier yesterday, a Baloch armed group had targeted a Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC) convoy in Absar area of Turbat, which inflicted casualties on the Pakistani forces, according to a media report.
After the attack on FC convoy, Pakistani forces cordoned off the nearby area and arrested Mohammad Hayat Baloch from a palm tree orchard and shot him dead.
Reportedly, the attack on the convoy took place on eve of August 14, marked as the Independence Day of Pakistan.
However, Baloch do not celebrate this day as they consider themselves as a separate territory that was occupied by Pakistan forcibly on March 27, 1948.
Baloch people celebrate 11 August as their independence day every year, as it was on this day in 1947 that the British government gave independence to Balochistan.
They have been protesting against the violence and suppression at the hands of Pakistan military and security forces for decades.
Recently, Baloch armed groups and Sindhi revolutionaries have decided to form a joint front to fight against Pakistan’s occupation and the atrocities inflicted by the Pakistani army on their people in the region.
-CHK/ARK
