Lahore: Women rights activists and organisers of Aurat March Lahore on Friday held a protest demonstration against the abduction of a Baloch woman, Mahal Baloch, from Quetta, as well as alleged triple-murders in Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Provincial Minister Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran’s private jail in Barkhan.
عورت مارچ لاہور نے ماہل بلوچ کے غیر قانونی اغوا اور گراناز مری کو انصاف دلانے کے لیے ہونے والے احتجاج میں شرکت کی۔ #JusticeForMarriFamily #ReleaseMahalBaloch pic.twitter.com/3FjdLbhQqh
— عورت مارچ لاہور – Aurat March Lahore (@AuratMarch) February 24, 2023
Earlier this week, authorities allegedly abducted a woman named Mahal Baloch along with her two children from Quetta, Balochistan. The children were later released, however, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) detained the woman, declaring her a ‘terrorist’.
The women rights activists also demanded justice for gender-based crime in Balochistan and chanted slogans against enforced disappearances.
عورت مارچ گراناز اور ظلم کا نشانہ بنانے والی ہر بلوچ عورت کیلئے انصاف کا مطالبہ کرنے کے ساتھ ساتھ بلوچ خواتین پر تشدد کرنے والے افراد کو انصاف کے کٹہرے میں لانے کے اپنے مطالبے کو ایک نئے سرے سے دہراتا ہے۔ ہم اس ظلم سے صرفِ نظر نہیں کر سکتے۔#JusticeForMarriFamily pic.twitter.com/KKrPh1lmmb
— عورت مارچ لاہور – Aurat March Lahore (@AuratMarch) February 24, 2023
On Wednesday, the police arrested Provincial Minister Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran in connection with the three bodies recovered from a well in Barkhan, Balochistan.
The provincial minister was accused by a citizen named Khan Muhammad Marri of detaining his wife, Granaz, and seven children in his private jail. Granaz Marri had also appeared in a video where she claimed she and her children had been abducted by the minister and were being kept in his private prison.
Initially, the recovered bodies from the well were assumed to be of Granaz and her sons. But it was revealed that the body of the woman found in Barkhan — whose face was rendered unrecognisable —was not of the 40- year-old Granaz Marri, but rather of a young woman, around the age of 18.
