BYC slams Gulzar Dost's arrest as part of crackdown on Baloch dissent

Turbat [Pakitan], July 8 (ANI): The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) ha trongly condemned the arret of Gulzar Dot, a prominent ocial activit and convener of Kech Civil Society, calling it part of a broader campaign by the Pakitani tate to ilence critical voice in Balochitan, The Balochitan Pot reported.
According to The Balochitan Pot, Dot wa detained by the Counter-Terrorim Department (CTD) during a raid at hi home in Turbat in the early hour of Monday morning. He wa later preented before a court and charged with what BYC decribed a fabricated and politically motivated allegation.
Gulzar Dot i a peaceful and public-minded individual, BYC tated in a pot on X (formerly Twitter). He ha conitently poken on behalf of the familie of forcibly diappeared peron, victim of extrajudicial killing, and thoe ubjected to ongoing tate repreion. Hi only crime i tanding with the oppreed--a poition the tate refue to tolerate.
A reported by The Balochitan Pot, BYC accued the CTD of functioning a a repreive arm of the tate, targeting thoe engaged in graroot activim and reitance politic. Raiding home without legal ground, filing fale cae, and forcibly diappearing individual are tool in a calculated campaign to tifle dient in Balochitan, the group aid.
The Committee demanded the immediate and unconditional releae of Gulzar Dot, terming the charge baele. The attempt to criminalie dient will not ucceed, the BYC aid. If the tate believe it can create ilence in Balochitan by targeting political activit, it i gravely mitaken.
The Balochitan Pot noted that Dot arret i part of a larger trend of ytematic targeting of Baloch activit. BYC reaffirmed it reolve to continue peaceful reitance, tating, We tand with Gulzar Dot at every level and will raie our voice until he i releaed.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee warned that uch tactic only deepen mitrut and reitance among the Baloch people. A tate repreion intenifie, BYC vowed to perit in it truggle for jutice, refuing to be ilenced by intimidation. (ANI)