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Pakistani police free 290 Baloch activists arrested while protesting extrajudicial killings

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Pakistani police Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad.

Their release came days after protest organizers gave authorities a deadline to release all those detained.

The activists had traveled 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 province, to protest forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the militancy-ravaged southwest.

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