Balochistan, Feb. 19 -- Families of Baloch missing persons gathered outside the Karachi Press Club, accusing law enforcement authorities of killing a young man in what they described as a staged police encounter.

The protest drew dozens of women and children demanding justice and the immediate release of the deceased's body to his relatives, as reported by The Balochistan Post.

According to The Balochistan Post, the victim, 24-year-old student Hamdan Baloch, son of Muhammad Ali and a resident of Golimar, had allegedly been forcibly disappeared weeks before his reported death.

His father told media representatives that personnel of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) detained his son on December 29 near the Dhobi Ghat Bridge without ...