Baloch protestors to end agitation in Gwadar after 'successful' negotiations, says Pak authorities
Pakistan's ethnic Baloch protestors have decided to call off a nearly week-long sit-in in the coastal city of Gwadar against alleged human rights violations in the resource-rich Balochistan province after «successful negotiations» with the provincial government, the authorities said on Friday. The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) had been holding protests at the city's Marine Drive area against the alleged human rights violations, enforced disappearances and alleged extrajudicial killings in Balochistan.
Balochistan's interior minister Mir Zia Ullah Langov held talks with BYC leader Dr Mahrang Baloch, a young woman from the province, and the two sides signed a seven-point agreement.
«Negotiations between the Baloch Yakjehti Committee and the district administration have been successful and the organisers of the committee have agreed to end their sit-ins across the province,» Langov said in a statement.
«I appeal to the people to protest, but do not damage the protest site, attack the forces, or hurt the common people,» he said, adding that the government would «not allow anyone to take the law into their hands under the guise of protest.»
According to the agreement, the BYC would end its protest once all the protesters arrested by security forces in Balochistan and Karachi were released.
It said all highways will be reopened as soon as the sit-in ends and the mobile network will also be restored.
A committee consisting of officials from BYC and the district administration will also be established, while all
