Balochistan, March 2 -- The sit-in protest by the relatives of forcibly disappeared Baloch people entered its third day at the Hub Bhavani Bypass, where six affected families are protesting for the recovery of their kin, a statement by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee said.

The state administration has not been able to recover the forcibly disappeared people, nor is it ready to take legal action against the state army, as per the statement.

On the contrary, the affected families are being continuously threatened and harassed in the name of negotiations.

On Sunday, state troops and plainclothes intelligence agents brutally beat the protesters up, firing bullets and baton-charging them. Several people were arrested and shifted to an unknown...