Jul 21, 2025
Private jails in Balochistan’s fiefdoms
WHEN Asghar* was locked up inside a sardar’s private jail in Haji Kot, he could not sleep for several days. “It took more than two months for me to get used to the darkness, the torture, and sleeping on the floor,” he tells Dawn at his home in Barkhan district. “Despite my family repeatedly imploring the sardar to forgive me, it took years for me to be set free. I had started believing that…