Committee visits QAU sit-in, students insist on tangible measures before campus reopens

By Nadir Baloch

ISLAMABAD: The sit‑in protest at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) entered the fourth day on Thursday as students continued their demand for the recovery of missing student Saeedullah Baloch.

A committee led by Senator Jan Muhammad Buledai and two QAU officials met with the protesting students in a bid to negotiate to end the sit-in.

According to sources, the committee offered full support for the students’ demands and proposed a “supporting report” — with a promise to amend it if protesters raised doubts.

The students said that the campus will remain closed until all parts of the deal are implemented on the ground.

Despite the assurances, the protesters described themselves as “cautious.”

They insisted that reopening of academic activities must wait for concrete action, not just promises.

The sit-in has been triggered by the alleged enforced disappearance of Saeedullah Baloch, a sixth‑semester student in the Defence and Strategic Studies department.

The protesting students said unknown men in civiies, accompanied by law‑enforcement personnel, abducted him from Islamabad Toll Plaza on July 8, 2025 while he was travelling to Quetta.

With no official statement from QAU’s administration so far, the Baloch Students Council (BSC) has turned the protest into a symbol of sit-in. They said that academic work cannot resume until justice was served.