The circumstances of Karima’s burial in Pakistan indicate that the Pakistani government views her as a threat. Most disturbing are the suspicions that she was murdered, in much the same fashion as Iranian dissidents are who oppose the Iranian regime. The European Foundation for South Asian Studies published an article: The killing of Pakistani dissidents abroad is a dangerous trend that urgently needs to be arrested.
Canada under the Trudeau Liberals has kowtowed so efficiently to Islamic supremacists that it has become dangerous for dissidents to live in a country that should be taking a stand for freedom and human rights.
Meanwhile, internationally, Pakistan is emboldened and increasingly brazen in exporting Sharia, even meddling in Western countries. Suspicion over the death of Karima is not far-fetched.
“Pakistani dissident Karima Mehrab Baloch buried in home village under tight security, activists say,” by Abdul Sattar, Associated Press, January 25, 2021:
A Pakistani dissident and civil rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was returned to Pakistan and laid to rest in her home village in southwestern Baluchistan province under tight security, activists said Monday.
Only immediate family members of 37-year-old Karima Mehrab Baloch were allowed to attend her funeral Sunday in the village of Tump in Baluchistan.
Her supporters claim that Pakistani troops had sealed off the village and prevented them from attending her burial. Her remains were brought to Pakistan from Canada earlier Sunday.
Karima’s body was found Dec. 22 near Toronto’s downtown waterfront, a place that she liked and often visited, a day after she was reported missing. Toronto police have not treated her death as suspicious though there were allegations by her supporters that she was killed.
A fierce critic of Pakistani spy agencies that are often accused of abducting activists in Baluchistan and elsewhere in Pakistan, Karima was granted asylum in Canada in 2016. Her death has raised suspicions among rights activists, who on Monday denounced authorities for holding the funeral in near secrecy.
“It is appalling to see how Karima Baloch’s dead body was treated,” said Mohsin Dawar, a lawmaker from Pakistan’s former tribal regions who campaigns for Pashtun minority right but like Baloch, has also criticized Pakistani spy agencies.
“It is not difficult to understand how this will deepen the divide and fuel separatism,” he tweeted. “Is this the strategy to deal with the Baloch insurgency, to sprinkle salt on the wounds of Baloch?”
There was no immediate comment from the government, but a video that surfaced on social media shows soldiers turning back several mourners who are heard in the footage saying they wanted to pay their last respects to Karima.
Angered over the situation, a Baloch nationalist group – the Baloch Solidarity Committee – issued a call for a daylong strike and complete shutdown in Baluchistan on Monday. Its statement said Pakistani troops spirited Karima’s coffin away on its arrival from Canada and foiled a move by her supporters to hold her funeral in Karachi, instead taking her remains to her home village.
Later on Sunday, hundreds of Baluch activists rallied in Karachi, denouncing the government for not allowing that Karima’s funeral be held in the city.
They chanted antigovernment slogans and demanded justice for Karima, who they say was a “voice of the Baloch people” that was “silenced.” The activists insisted she did not die a natural death though they offered no evidence to support their allegation….
mortimer says
Karima’s more of a threat to government propaganda buried in Pakistan than living in Canada. Jihadi Justin Trudeau (bedmate of the Muslim Brotherhood) has cracked down on independent media in Canada, so few ex-Muslims speak out and if they do they are slandered by Trudeau’s lapdog media lackeys.
Fred van de Bunt says
According to this BBC article she shortly before her death received threats “warning someone would send her a “Christmas gift” and “teach her a lesson””.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55434925
There is nothing suspicious about a teacher sending a lady a Christmas gift, the police must have thought.
Infidel says
The most bizarre aspect that I heard about this story was that the Pak expatriates in Canada are a large enough voting bloc that Trudeau feels it necessary to pander to them: that includes looking the other way while Pak agents carry out assassinations like that of Karima Baloch
One thing I will say about the Baloch secessionist movement: it’s not non-Muslim or anti-Muslim, and therefore, doesn’t deserve any foreign support outside dar ul islam. Yeah, both Iran and Pakistan have motives for them to be suppressed, but that’s an intra-muslim civil war – one more of those alien vs predator scenarios that Hugh used to promote
gravenimage says
Pakistani dissident who died in Canada is buried in home village, as troops block access to burial
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Even more concerning is how she may have died.