Who is Mahrang Baloch? and it is a quite common question these days since people are watching a young lady of Balochistan that is protesting on roads of Islamabad.
Mahrang Baloch is a 30 years old female MBBS doctor and a Baloch human rights activist that originally belongs to Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan.
For the last may years, she is struggling against the oppression in Balochistan such as unlawful disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
She is quite famous and popular at social media and her twitter handle is @MahrangBaloch_.
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She is recently leading a protest in Islamabad with a group of ladies and children to raise voice for their missing family ones. In response, around 200 female protesters were arrested by Islamabad police as they entered in Islamabad.
Mahrang was leading the group of protesters those were marching across the country for weeks against missing people in Balochistan province.
Mahrang was born in 1993 into a Baloch Muslim family that originally belongs from the Kalat, Balochistan. She has five sisters and one brother in her family.
Mahrang’s father name was Abdul Gaffar Baloch and he was an employee at WAPDA. He was renowned Baloch nationalist and left-wing political activist. Mahrang’s family was living in Quetta before she relocated to Karachi with here family for her mother’s medical care.
By profession she is a MBBS Doctor and PGR in surgery. In December 2009, her father was gotten missing on his way to the hospital in Karachi.
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Mahrang immediately started protesting his abduction At the age of 16 and became known in the student resistance movement. However, in July 2011, her father was found dead with signs of torture.
In addition to that her brother was later abducted in December 2017, and was detained for over 3 months. She once again started resisting and talk on media for his brother’s detention. Since then, she has been one of the prominent figure in Baloch resistance movement.
She has protested the government’s extraction of natural resources from Balochistan. In 2020, she led a group of students protesting the proposed removal of the quota system at Bolan Medical College, which reserves spots for medical students coming from remote areas of the province. As a result of the group’s activism and hunger strikes, the proposed policy change was cancelled.
