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Supporters of Baloch political activist Karima Mehrab Baloch participate in a demonstration to condemn her killing, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Credit:
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From small groups in downtown Toronto, and outside the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, to huge marches in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, there are growing calls for an investigation into the death of Karima Mehrab Baloch, a 37-year-old Pakistani national living in Canada.
On Dec. 21, Karima Mehrab went for a walk alone along Toronto’s lakefront and never returned. Her husband reported her missing, and a day later, police found her body in the water. Less than 24 hours later, they concluded it was a “non-criminal death” with no foul play suspected. The Toronto Police Service declined to explain more.
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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.