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NEW DELHI: India has expressed condolences to the family of Baloch activist Karima Baloch, found dead under mysterious circumstances in Canada, even as the Toronto Police tweeted to say they did not suspect any foul play in her death.
The 37-year-old Baloch activist had gone missing on Sunday. Her body was found on Monday. On Wednesday, the Toronto Police tweeted, “The circumstances have been investigated and officers have determined this to be a non-criminal death and no foul play is suspected. We have updated the family.” According to officials, the police statement came before the post-mortem of the body.
Another Baloch activist, Fazila Baloch, said in a tweet: “Karima Baloch @KarimaBaloch had raised alarms about Pakistan Army officials settling in #Canada & questioned Canadian govt for allowing this. She feared that this will lead to attacks against Baloch in Canada,”. Karima is the second Baloch activist to be die in mysterious circumstances in foreign land this year
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
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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
Karima Baloch, human rights activist and vocal critic of Pakistan, found dead in Canada Karima was critical of the atrocities meted out to the people of Balochistan and had also raised the issue of gender inequality in Pakistan at the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in 2018 FP Staff December 22, 2020 16:52:55 IST Activist Karima Baloch was found dead in Toronto. Image credit: Twitter/karimabaloch
Prominent Baloch activist Karima Baloch, who had escaped Pakistan in 2016 to take refuge in Canada, was found dead in unexplained circumstances in Harbourfront near Toronto s lakeshore.
A day after she was reported missing by the local police, her body was found drowned on an island near the lakeshore. Her husband Hammal Haider and brother have identified her body.
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Prominent Balochistan activist Karima Baloch, who had for years been vocal about alleged Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan, has been found dead in Toronto, Canada.
According to reports, the 35-year-old former student leader and activist who fled Pakistan in 2016 had gone missing from Toronto on Sunday. Police found her body drowned off an island near Toronto’s lakeshore. Reports suggest Pakistan s intelligence agency ISI might be responsible for the attack.
But who was Karima Baloch?
Karima Baloch was a Canadian refugee from Pakistan who first rose to prominence as a vocal critic of the Pakistani government in 2016 after she ran away from the country and sought exile in Canada. Formerly a student of psychology in Pakistan, Karima was also the former chairperson of Baloch Students Organisation – Azad.