Pak varsity cancels Balochistan debate under ISI pressure

April 09, 2015 21:26

A leading Pakistani university was today forced to cancel a talk by a Baloch human rights activist, allegedly under pressure from the country's spy agency ISI.

The Lahore University of Management Sciences had planned a panel discussion featuring Abdul Qadeer Baloch, the founder of a group working for information on people who have "disappeared" during the long-running conflict between the government and separatists in the restive southwestern Balochistan province.

Abdul Qadeer Baloch is very active in highlighting cases of enforced disappearances of Baloch activists which rights groups accuse the military and intelligence agencies of kidnapping and killing.

Qadeer, 72, last year had travelled more than 2,000 kilometres on foot along with a group of Baloch women and men on their way from Quetta to Islamabad to raise voice against "enforced disappearances" in Balochistan.

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