Some 400 ethnic Baloch, half of them are women and children, have set up camp in Islamabad a few weeks after a young guy was killed in “extrajudicial” fashion.
In Pakistan’s capital, the temperature has dropped to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) on a chilly January evening. Najma Mola Baksh, though, remains unfazed. Najma is one of the approximately 400 ethnic Baloch people who have been camping outside the National Press Club in Islamabad for several weeks in protest of the widespread enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings that are occurring in Pakistan’s Balochistan region. The demonstrators, who were mostly women and children, continued to move around uncomfortable in the tents and outside the canopy, clinging to their blankets, jackets, and sweaters to withstand the chilly weather. Najma left her homeland of Turbat City, Balochistan, and traveled more than 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) to seek justice for her younger brother Balaach Mola Baksh’s murder.
