Over the last couple of weeks, Balochistan’s southern Kech district has been gripped by mass protests following the reported killing of a young man, who was earlier taken into custody by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).
The CTD termed the killing a result of “armed clashes with militants”, adding that three more suspects were killed in the clash on Pasni Road in the north of Kech’s district headquarters, Turbat.
A person named Balaach Mola Bakhsh was among the dead. On November 20, five kilograms of explosives were allegedly found on him, according to the CTD. On November 21, a formal complaint was filed against him, and that same day, in Turbat, he appeared before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC). But when Bakhsh’s body was transported to Turbat Teaching Hospital on the evening of November 22–23, his relatives was there to identify him.
Four rebels were slain in an intelligence-based operation on Pasni Road, the CTD initially said in a terse statement. Later in the evening, in a more detailed statement, the CTD explained that based on a tip-off provided to its personnel by Bakhsh, a CTD team raided a house where insurgents had taken shelter
