Occupational Pakistan Forces Not Handing Over the Dead Body Of Kareema Baloch

The dead body of Kareema Baloch arrived in Karachi. The occupational Pakistani forces will not hand over the body to the family members. The family members of Kareema Baloch have been abducted by occupational Pakistan Military Forces to prevent them from attending final funeral prayers.

Karima Baloch, also known as Karima Mehrab, was a Pakistani Baloch human rights activist and dissident. She campaigned for the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan and was included in the BBC’s list of 100 inspirational and influential women in 2016.

Kareem Baloch family was abducted by Pak-ISI to prevent them from attending her funeral. This is the inhumanity Kareema Baloch fought against all her life. This is why she was killed because they found her Truth too dangerous in life, and now find her too dangerous in death.

Baloch was last seen on 20 December 2020. On 22 December 2020, her dead body was found on the waterfront near downtown Toronto. The Toronto Police Service initially reported that her body was found near Lake Ontario, although no further details were given.

CBC News reported that a close friend and fellow Baloch activist, Lateef Johar, said that “officers had told her family she was found drowned in the water”. Small-scale protests demanding an investigation into her death occurred in Pakistani Balochistan and Canada.

Ethnic Baloch, Pashtun, and Sindhi groups in Canada issued a joint statement in this regard. Canadian police acknowledged the concerns around Baloch’s death, but stated that they had found no evidence of foul play, and concluded that her death was “non-criminal”.

Chris Alexander, the former Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tweeted: “All of us who knew Karima see the circumstances of her death as deeply suspicious. We must leave no stone unturned in uncovering & confronting the reality of what happened to her.”