Group: Pakistani Baloch Dissident Buried Amid High Security

Group: Pakistani Baloch Dissident Buried Amid High Security
Supporters of Baloch political activist Karima Baloch hold her portrait during a demonstration to condemn her killing, in Karachi, Pakistan in this Dec. 24, 2020 file photo. AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File
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QUETTA, Pakistan—A Pakistani dissident and woman rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was brought home and laid to rest in her home village in the southwestern Baluchistan province under tight security, activists said Monday.

Only the immediate family of 37-year-old Karima Baloch were allowed to attend her funeral on Sunday in the village of Tump in Baluchistan.