Days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about   atrocities being carried out on the people of Balochistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) Balochs have been holding a protest in support of PM Modi’s statement.

As per reports,  several freedom fighters raised the Indian national flag and held a demonstration in support of Indian PM Modi’s stand on human rights violations in Balochistan. Protests have been continuing in the region for the past five days in Sui, Dera Bugti, Jafarabad and Nasirabad among other locations in Balochistan.

As per reports, theprotestors were seen carrying pictures of Narendra Modi and deceased Baloch martyr and freedom fighter Akbar Bugti. The masked protesters carried placards reading ‘Stop Baloch Genocide’ and were also seen trampling the Pakistani flag.

Last week, Balochistan chief minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri and commander of southern command Lieutenant General Aamir Riaz said that they would welcome Baloch leaders’ return to the country. The invite was extended at the national flag-hoisting ceremony at the Quaid-i-Azam Residency in Ziarat, a district in Balochistan, on the occasion of the 70th Independence Day celebrations of Pakistan.

Zehri also invited the self-exiled Baloch leaders to come back to Pakistan.

On August 15, in a first for any Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi referred to human rights abuses in Balochistan+ and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “The world is watching. People of Balochistan, Gilgit, Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir have thanked me a lot in the past few days. I am grateful to them,” Modi said, referring to his comments last week on excesses in Pakistan’s Balochistan and PoK.

He said the way people from these Pakistani regions “wished me well, gives me great joy”.