In an email to CTV News, a press officer confirmed that Baloch had been found deceased, and that it was being “investigated as a non-criminal death” and there are “not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.” Baloch’s husband told the Guardian that her body had been found on Toronto’s Centre Island.
Who was Karima Baloch? Baloch was an activist from the Balochistan region in western Pakistan, and a vocal critic of the Pakistani military and state establishment. She was well known, and was the first female head of the banned activist group Baloch Student’s Organization, according to the BBC. Other members of her extended family with ties to the activist movement have gone missing and later been found dead.