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Banuk Karima leader of generations to come || By Khati Baloch

Banuk Karima leader of generations to come || By Khati Baloch

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03
03 / 01 / 2021 Articles 746

Karima Mehrab Baloch was born in 1983 in a suburb area of District Kech, Tump. She was 37 years old and martyred on December 22 of this year in the Canadian city Toronto. She started her primary education in Tump primary school. Karima Baloch was practicality a varied human from the rest of Baloch society and Baloch culture. Her dream was to see a free status of Balochistan and for the Baloch nation, as she believed to crush the slavery of the Baloch nation. Karima was the only and the first chairperson of Baloch Student's Organization- Azad (BSO), after Zahid Baloch who was abducted in march 2014 from Balochistan Quetta. On abduction of Zahid Baloch, the Baloch student’s organization's chairperson Karima Baloch planned to sit on hunger strike till death for the safe recovery of Zahid Baloch. In response Lateef Johar Baloch, the CC central committee member became the first volunteer who decided to sit for the hunger strike in front of the Karachi press club. Upon completion of 46 days of hunger strike late Baloch national leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri requested to wrap up the hunger strike because he had knew that in Pakistan nothing is going to change even there is no humanity, Pakistan is a fascist country and such peaceful protests will not bring anything in this state strategies and Karima Baloch and her organization members decided to end the hunger strike.

Karima Mehrab Baloch was not only a great leader, she was a great human being, courageous and brave woman ever and as for I felt her as a kind mother to everyone. After 2009 Balochistan turned into a conflict zone and Karima Baloch never feared being killed and sided all her personal life for a better Balochistan for a better tomorrow for the Baloch nation to come. Besides all, she always visits every part of Balochistan, every village to mobilize the Baloch nation and conveyed the message of slavery and the contributions she performed will testify her political stance forever until Baloch is alive.

Karima Baloch started her career as a political activist in 2005. Following that she has been a regular attendee of protests over missing persons and carried the picture of one of her missing relatives. In 2006, she joined the Baloch Students Organization (BSO-Azad) working in numerous capacities in the following years, and in 2015 became first female chairperson of BSO-Azad after her organization chairman Zahid Baloch Abduction in 2014. According to, (OZY Media an Article) it says in 2014 Karima Baloch was seen as a dangerous political player in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, and a threat to the defense of the country. She is, meanwhile, a thousand miles southwest, Pakistani occupied province Balochistan, a popular hero and a beacon of hope for the Baloch nation.

Once in an interview, she narrated, in 2014 for us, the means of peaceful struggle has been turned into a lethal poison. During the previous three years, many of our members have been brutally killed and thousands have been abducted. Two months back, the chairman of my organization was kidnapped right in front of my eyes. Before that, in 2009, the vice-chairman of our organization Zakir Majeed was kidnapped by the secret services while he was attending a crowded procession.

While feeling it a disturbing situation, In 2015 Student's Leader Karima Baloch fled to exile in Canada. Since suspicions of terrorism were laid against her in Canada from the Pakistani Government to seek from Canadians authorities to not grant her asylum in Canada and send her back to Pakistan. She was given asylum in Canada in 2016 and remained there until her cold blood assassination in 2020 in Toronto. Meanwhile, in 2016 she sent a message to Indian prime minister Narender Modi, as he was to deliver a speech on India's Independence Day in which PM Modi mentioned Balochistan, Karima Baloch made a video thanking him, "We will fight our war, you just be our voice".

In 2016, for her social activities involving campaigns for Balochistan's independence and Baloch Missing persons from Pakistan, the BBC included Banuk karima Baloch in their BBC top 100 influential Women in 2016 list. She used her social media accounts to highlight abductions, torture, forced disappearances and other human rights abuses that people in Balochistan were subjected by the government of Pakistan its military and death squads in Balochistan Province.

Karima Baloch emphasized on the battle for the rights of Baloch women in her activism and stressed how the legal system and religious groups in Pakistan utilized state and social machinery to actively target Baloch women and childrens.

Being an exiled Baloch leader in Canada, she still stood up for the Baloch cause and Baloch movement and attended United Nations sessions in Geneva. She has always been busy in social media and most probably in Twitter concerning campaigns to let the civilized world to know about the Balochistan, occupier's kill and dump policies.
Despite of living in Canada, she always felt the pain for Baloch and wanted to highlight Baloch issues on every platform.

The Founder and chief editor of The Balochistan Times, which consistently highlight human rights violations that Baloch people were subjected. In March 2020 while in exile as a journalist and Human Rights defender Sajid Hussain Baloch have been a victim of Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Sweden. He has fled to Sweden in 2017 and was granted political asylum in 2019. Hussain got missing on 2nd March 2020, and the administrative authorities while briefing the victimized family reported that he was last seen boarding a train from Stockholm to Uppsala but unluckily Sajid's Dead body was found in a river in Uppsala after two months on April 23. But authorities and local police hinted it a suicide act. Very recently the deceased wife tweeted that she is not satisfied with the police reports.

This methodology of killing Baloch activists and human rights defenders are being reported abroad such as in Europe and Canada. Baloch dissidents are not safe anywhere and for sure if it sustains there will be more victims in the coming future. In the same way on the 20th of December karima Baloch was last seen but the tragic incident that happened has not no clue. Upon which her family informed Toronto police and the next day Toronto police found her dead on an island in Toronto.

Pakistani ISI continues to target the Baloch activists, journalists and human rights defenders not only inside Balochistan but it has begun it's dirty war abroad. Pakistan using its brutal tools to kill Baloch activists in everywhere. Karima and Sajid Hussain became the start-up and will continue its kill and dump policies in the whole world.

Karima Baloch physically been away from Baloch but her sacrifices will bring a new dawn for Baloch and her blood will give a free Balochistan and a free land. Until the history is alive Karima is alive.