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BYC: Israr Baloch: detained 7 days, found dead in Quetta police station
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BYC: Israr Baloch: detained 7 days, found dead in Quetta police station
They Waited Nine Months for a Son. They Got a Body: Balochistan Enforced Disappearances 2026
Balochistan, 13 April 2026 (Aomarkarim.com): In the space of just a few weeks, the bodies of seven men have been found discarded on roadsides and in open areas across Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and most restive province. Each had been forcibly disappeared, some for as long as nine months, before their families received not a phone call or a court summons, but a corpse. The cases have been…
Balochistan: Alarm over enforced disappearances of Baloch women
Human rights activists have raised alarm over enforced disappearances of Baloch women in Balochistan, warning that the practice marks a dangerous escalation in Pakistan’s ongoing human rights crisis. Human rights activists have sounded the alarm over a disturbing escalation in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, warning that Baloch women and girls are now being forcibly disappeared in what…
Karachi protest enters 32nd day as family demands release of missing student
The family of Zahid Ali, a 25-year-old student of International Relations at the University of Karachi, has completed the 32nd consecutive day of protest outside the Karachi Press Club, demanding his safe return. Ali was allegedly forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces on 17 July 2025, along with the rickshaw he drove part-time to support his family. His disappearance has drawn…
Canadian Baloch Congress Hosts Human Rights Conference Highlighting Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan
Baloch Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Forcible Disappearance of Students in Sindh
Four Baloch students were allegedly taken by Pakistani security personnel from the hostel of Sindh Agriculture University in Tando Jam, Hyderabad, on 1 September, according to rights groups and fellow students. Witnesses reported that plainclothes men entered the hostel and detained the students, who had travelled to Tando Jam from Uthal University’s Wadh campus as part of a research project at…
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…
Human Rights Groups Demand Release of Enforced Disappeared Baloch Students in Pakistan
Two leading human rights organisations have called on Pakistani authorities to immediately release Baloch students allegedly subjected to enforced disappearance, warning that the cases reflect “a systemic campaign” against ethnic Baloch youth across Balochistan and other parts of the country. In a statement issued by its South Asia office, Amnesty International highlighted the case of Mahjabeen…