Eyewitnesses report that the security forces employed excessive force, targeting the protesters deliberately. This act is seen as a severe violation of the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, fundamental human rights that are protected under international law.
According to PAANK, security forces have been conducting raids at homes and student hostels, forcibly disappearing students and Baloch Youth Council (BYC) activists, and filing false FIRs against them.
The local administration's attempts to thwart this peaceful assembly have raised serious concerns. Paank criticized these actions as part of a disturbing pattern of repression intended to silence dissent and obscure systemic abuses within the region.
PAANK, the Human Rights Wing of the Baloch National Movement, on Friday, lamented the local administration and its security agencies for "suppressing" peaceful human rights protests in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
The Pakistani forces have allegedly detained 54 individuals across 12 districts of Balochistan, Pakistan in June, raising concerns about the surge in cases of enforced disappearances, according to a report.
According to PAANK, the human rights department of the Baloch National Movement, a Baloch rights organisation from Pakistan, Zaheer was forcibly abducted by men belonging to the Pakistani forces on June 27 this year.
The leaders and activists of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) are holding meetings with diplomats, international organisations, and academics in Geneva to intensify advocacy for the Baloch cause on the international stage against rights violations by Pakistan.
The German chapter of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) organised a protest on Wednesday in Cologne, Germany to raise awareness over the human rights violations in Balochistan, Pakistan.
The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has raised alarms over Pakistan's recent "Azm-e-Istehkam Operation," warning that it will escalate violence, including forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, condemned activist Naveed Baloch's extrajudicial killing in a post on social media platform X.
The BNM statement claims that Pakistan did not take adequate measures during the 1998 nuclear tests in Chaghi mountain of Balochistan to prevent radiation exposure to nearby areas.