Missing Pakistani activist Karima Baloch found dead in Toronto
Karima Baloch was a critic of human rights abuses in Pakistan and a supporter of autonomy for Balochistan, the southwest region of Pakistan.
Police said they did not believe the death happened under suspicious circumstances
Karima Mehrab, a Pakistani human rights activist who had fled Pakistan to Canada in 2015, was found dead in Toronto, Canadian police revealed on Tuesday.
Mehrab disappeared near Lake Ontario on Sunday. The 37-year-old activist s body was found near Toronto s downtown waterfront on Monday.
Mehrab, also known as Karima Baloch, was a critic of human rights abuses in Pakistan and a supporter of autonomy for Balochistan, the southwest region of Pakistan.
Who was Karima Baloch? All about the activist championing Balochistan s freedom found dead in Canada Updated Dec 23, 2020 | 17:53 IST
In 2016, Karima Baloch had sent a video message on Rakhi Day to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his help to save the thousands of Baloch student activists from torture at Pakistani establishments hands. Karima Baloch | Photo Credit: Twitter
Key Highlights
Karima Baloch was a fearlessly vocal activist who demanded justice to the thousands of Baloch freedom fighters who have been abducted and disappeared by Pakistani state agencies
With her life as a Students Movement leader under threat, she had fled to Toronto in 2017 but always decried ISI and Pakistani Army s excesses
Pakistani Human Rights Activist Found Dead in Canada
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A prominent ethnic Baloch rights activist, Karima Mehrab Baloch, 37, from the conflict-ridden province of Balochistan, Pakistan, was found dead on Dec. 21 after going missing in Toronto a day earlier.
“It’s confirmed that my friend, colleague, and prominent Baloch politician Karima Baloch, is no more among us physically,” Lateef Johar Baloch tweeted. “Toronto police found her dead body in Toronto today. Please pray for her family and friends!”
Toronto police said Karima was last seen on Dec 20 at approximately 3 p.m., in the Bay Street and Queens Quay West area in Toronto. Police did not give a cause of death.
Baloch activist, vocal critic of Pak, found dead in Toronto
She had often accused Pakistan of promoting radical Islamic elements in Baloch areas to counter the nationalist movement and to curb women’s rights. December 23, 2020 6:14:04 am
Karima Mehrab had called the Indian PM her brother.
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 2016 Independence Day speech, had made an outreach to the people of Balochistan, Baloch activist Karima Mehrab called the Indian PM her brother and urged him to be the voice of “Baloch genocide, war crimes and human rights violations at international forums”.
On Monday night, Mehrab popularly known as Karima Baloch – was found dead in Toronto, Canada, where she had been living since 2015, seeking political asylum. The 32-year-old was last seen on December 20, the Toronto Police tweeted.
Karima Baloch was a vocal critic of the Pakistani government. (Twiiter/@KarimaBaloch)
Human rights activist Karima Baloch was
found dead in Toronto, Canada on Sunday, the
Balochistan Post reported. Baloch was a vocal critic of the Pakistani government and had actively worked to highlight human rights violations perpetrated upon people in Balochistan.
Who was Karima Baloch?
In 2016, BBC had included Baloch in their ‘BBC 100 Women 2016’ list for her work involving “campaigns for independence for Balochistan from Pakistan.” She had used her social media profile to highlight abductions, torture, forced disappearances and other human rights violations that people in Balochistan were being subjected to by the Pakistan government and the army.