Pakistani Police Crack Down on Baluchistan Rights March to Islamabad
• Pakistan police crack down overnight on activists marching to Islamabad to protest extrajudicial killings and disappearances in Baluchistan province • Police use water cannons, batons and arrests to stop 200 protesters, including families with children, from reaching Islamabad • Rally was demanding justice for Balaach Mola Bakhsh, who died in police custody in Baluchistan in November • Human rights groups condemned violent police response, saying peaceful protesters were denied constitutional rights • Caretaker PM sent officials to meet with families of missing Baluch people and most rallygoers have been released