Marri Baloch women said, houses raided, 32 youths held

A group of women of the Marri tribe has told that law-enforcement agencies of raiding their homes in the Kahan village and harassing them.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, 10 women of the tribe said that dozens of vehicles of intelligence agencies and security forces surrounded their village at midnight on August 26, carried out house-to-house search and took 32 youths into custody.

They accused the security personnel of insulting people and harassing family members, including women, during the raid. They said it was not the first time that their homes had been raided, adding that they had been suffering under such unlawful acts for the last three years.

The arrested men included Shah Ali Marri, Samand, Sohaib, Pir Muhammad, Ismail, Qurash, and Jamil, the statement said.

They appealed to human rights organisations to take up the matter. 27.8.07