Quetta: A wheel-jam strike is being held across Balochistan over a child kidnapping in Quetta.
On occasion of the strike various highways and educational institutions are closed.
Major highways, including the N-25 Quetta-Chaman National Highway at Khanozai, Muslim Bagh, and Qila Saifullah, and the N-70 Highway at Loralai Mukhtar and Rara Hashim, have been blocked. The Quetta-Karachi National Highway has also been closed, and train services on the Quetta-Chaman section are suspended.
In addition, educational institutions in cities such as Chaman, Kohlu, and Khuzdar have been closed, with exams scheduled for the day canceled.
Authorities have reported no progress in locating the abducted child, whose disappearance has sparked widespread outrage and demands for urgent action.
A joint call for protest given by various political parties, traders, transporters, civil society against the kidnapping of 10-year-old student.
For past 10 days, sit-ins were being held in Quetta to press the authorities concerned to ensure safe recovery of the abducted child.
Musawir Khan, son of a jeweller, was kidnapped on his way to school in a van.
Armed men intercepted the vehicle near his home in the Patel Bagh area and abducted him on Nov 15.
In Quetta, Nasarullah Zerey, the provincial president of Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, along with leaders of the multiparty alliance, representatives of the business community at the protest camp, last week announced that a strike would be observed across the province today (November 25).
Other leaders present at the protest camp included Ghulam Nabi Marri of BNP-Mengal, Abdul Rahim Kakar, president of Anjuman Tajran, Rashid Nasir of ANP, Haji Abdul Baqi Kakar and Changez Hayee Baloch.
Expressing strong reservations over the performance of law enforcement agencies which failed to trace the abducted child’s whereabouts.
