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- Authorities said the body of 37-year-old Karima Mehrab was found on Monday near Toronto’s downtown waterfront
- Pakistan’s High Commission in Canada said in a statement it approached the Canadian government to find out the cause of death
TORONTO: Police in Toronto said Tuesday they are not treating the death of a prominent Pakistani dissident as suspicious.
Authorities said the body of 37-year-old Karima Mehrab was found on Monday near Toronto’s downtown waterfront, a day after she had been reported missing.
“It is currently being investigated as a non-criminal death and there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances,” Toronto police spokeswoman Caroline de Kloet said.
Mehrab, also known as Karima Baloch, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016.
Police said she was known to frequent Toronto’s waterfront and island areas.
Mehrab was a vocal critic of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, which are often accused by human rights activists of abducting activists in the country’s Baluchistan province and elsewhere in Pakistan.
She for years had campaigned for those people who go missing in Pakistan, and her death alarmed human rights activists
“The death of activist #KarimaBaloch in Toronto, Canada is deeply shocking and must be immediately and effectively investigated. The perpetrators must be brought to justice without recourse to the death penalty,” Amnesty International South Asia said in a tweet.
Pakistan’s High Commission in Canada said in a statement it approached the Canadian government to find out the cause of death.