KARACHI: Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC)’s Sammi Deen Baloch has been released from Central Prison here on Tuesday (1st April, 2025) after government took her name out of MPO.
It may be recalled that many BYC leaders including Sammi Deen Baloch, were taken into custody by Police that dispersed a manifestation held on 24th March, at Fawwara Chowk near the Press Club against arrest of Dr. Mahrang Baloch [(alongwith seventeen others,) during a crackdown on a dharna staged by them in Quetta recently. BYC also claimed three of their workers were shot dead by LEA personnel].
Samee Baloch was released by a judicial magistrate on 25th March, but had been rearrested by Police from the premises of court. According to details BYC had announced a protest in front of Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the arrest of Dr. Mahrang Baloch. Following an hour-long protest, Police took twenty protesters into custody. Fourteen were released late evening. However, six (including Sammi Deen Baloch) were formally booked over violation of Section 144 (that was imposed by the Commissioner to prevent this manifestation), and were locked-up.
But when the accused (Sammi Deen Baloch, Razzak Ali, Abdul Wahab Baloch, Shehdad and Sultan) were produced before a judicial magistrate, they were released. However, despite resistance from lawyers Sammi Deen Baloch and others were rearrested by Police that sent her to jail for thirty days under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO). Later it transpired that the activists of Baloch Yakjehti Committee were detained by the Government of Sindh upon the request of Inspector General of Sindh Police under the (MPO) for thirty days. According to the order their presence “is likely to pose grave threat to the public safety…”.
It is pertinent to mention here that the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Saryab Police Station (Quetta) accused, among others, Dr. Mahrang Baloch, (Beebow Baloch, Gulzadi Satakzai, Sabiha Baloch, Sabatullah Baloch, Gulzar Dost, Riaz Gashkori and Dr Shali Baloch) of terrorism, rebellion and murder. Since the authorities, in order to contain the Baloch Yakjehti Committee’s protest, closed the roads near Karachi Press Club, a severe embouteillage was witnessed at 3.30PM. As a result a large number of people remained stranded.
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