Quetta/Islamabad, May 7 (IANS) At least five civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation stated on Thursday.These latest incidents come against the backdrop of a growing wave of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings across the province.Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that two teachers, 45-year-old Abdul Hameed and 36-year-old Nasir Ali, were abducted on May 5 from the Paroom regi…
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Quetta, May 6 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation on Wednesday expressed serious concern over escalating abuses of Baloch civilians by Pakistani forces, citing a pattern of targetted killings and the subsequent dumping of mutilated bodies in Balochistan between January and April this year. In its thematic report titled ‘Kill and Dump Policy in Balochistan’, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) documented 43 victims of “kill and dump” in 2026 identified by their families, along with 21 case…
Quetta, May 2 (IANS) At least nine civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, said a leading human rights organisation on Saturday. Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, strongly condemned the enforced disappearance of two civilians, including 24-year-old farmer Qadeer Majeed and a student, Irshad Baloch, from the Khuzdar district.Citing reports, the rights body stated that both individuals were abducted on April 30 from the Badrang Greshag a…
Quetta, April 28 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on Tuesday stated that it has made a formal submission to the Government of Balochistan, documenting more than 1,250 cases of enforced disappearances in 2025 and 231 cases in the first three months of 2026. According to the BYC, this submission, which included a documented list of victims of enforced disappearances, was made through the Additional Chief Secretary (Home), the Secretary Home and was received on April 23.The …
Quetta, April 27 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against Pakistani forces across multiple districts of Balochistan between April 15 and April 25, killing 42 military personnel, injuring several others and capturing one soldier during the period, local media reported on Monday. According to a statement issued by the BLA spokesperson, Jeeyand Baloch, the group’s fighters carried out improvised explosive device (IED) attacks, ambushes, raids, a…
Quetta, April 27 (IANS) Shalee Baloch, the central organiser of the Baloch Women Forum (BWF), has written to international human rights bodies seeking intervention in the abuse cases across Balochistan by Pakistani forces, including what she described as the “systematic pattern of enforced disappearances”, especially targeting Baloch women. The letter was addressed to the United Nations for Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Working Group on E…
Quetta, April 24 (IANS) The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) on Friday expressed grave concern over the recent incidents of enforced disappearances of Baloch women and minor girls in Balochistan and Karachi by the Pakistani forces. Citing available information, the BWF stated that in the past few days, at least four women have been taken into custody from their homes and hostels before subsequently getting disappeared.The victims were identified as Husseina Baloch, Gul Bano, Samina Baloch, and Khadija B…
Quetta, April 22 (IANS) As enforced disappearances of civilians continue unabated across Balochistan, students of Bolan Medical College in the provincial capital, Quetta, staged a sit-in protest on Wednesday outside the college premises, demanding the immediate and safe recovery of a female student forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces. According to the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Khadija Baloch was abducted on Tuesday by Pakistani security forces from the BMC female hostel in Quetta and…
Quetta, April 21 (IANS) Attacks on Pakistani forces continued for the second consecutive day in Balochistan’s Mastung district on Tuesday with one paramilitary officer getting killed and six left injured, local media reported citing officials and sources. Reports suggest that an armed group once again targeted Pakistani personnel at multiple locations in the Dasht region of Mastung, destroying two vehicles in separate attacks and reportedly seizing weapons from personnel killed in the clashes….
Quetta, April 20 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated across Balochistan, leading human rights organisations brought to light the extrajudicial killing of two civilians and the enforced disappearance of six others at the hands of Pakistani forces. Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) mentioned that the dead body of 47-year-old shepherd Zulfaqar was found in the Paroom region of the Panjgur district on April 16, nearly two months after he was allegedly forcibly dis…