Five people in Balochistan were allegedly taken by Pakistani forces, while two previously missing men returned home. Families and the VBMP protest camp demand the recovery of missing student Saeed Baloch, saying enforced disappearances are creating fear and disrupting education in the region
Taking to the social media platform X, BNM stated that protesters carried banners and placards demanding international scrutiny and justice for thousands of missing persons in Balochistan. They called upon the United Nations, the European Union, and major democratic governments to end their
She characterised this behaviour as not only unethical but also a perilous form of profiling, surveillance, harassment, and the propagation of state propaganda, asserting that these individuals are compromising their integrity in their attempts to expose others, as highlighted by the TBP rep
Police in Islamabad on Sunday blocked Baloch protesters from reaching the National Press Club, as a sit-in led by the families of forcibly disappeared persons and leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) entered its fifth consecutive day, The Balochistan Post reported.
On the fourth consecutive day of a sit-in protest by families of forcibly disappeared persons and detained leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Pakistani authorities have intensified efforts to suppress the demonstration by barring families from reaching the protest site and seali
The BYC has called on human rights organisations to intervene and hold Pakistan accountable for its ongoing campaign of intimidation and enforced disappearances targeting Baloch activists.
Running for over 16 years, this hunger strike camp is among the longest-lasting protests in South Asia. Family members of the forcibly disappeared continue to gather each day, seeking justice for thousands of Baloch men and youth reportedly taken by Pakistani security forces.
Peaceful Baloch protesters and lawyers faced violence, arrests, and false charges in Karachi by Pakistan's police amid countrywide protests against the brutal treatment and torture of Baloch Yakjehti Committee(BYC) central leadership and other detainees held at Hudda Jail, Quetta.
The BYC accused armed police, plainclothes intelligence and paramilitary forces of dispersing protesters, sealing roads, baton-charging women, firing on unarmed crowds, and lodging criminal cases designed to intimidate and silence.
Thousands protested across Karachi and Balochistan demanding the release of detained BYC leaders, facing violent crackdowns by police, including reported baton charges and live fire.
Leading Baloch human rights body, Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) held protests and demonstrations across several places in Balochistan to express its anguish over the arrest of its leadership and raised voice against the ongoing state violence.
Paank, Baloch National Movement's human rights department, firmly denounces the excessive and violent actions taken by Pakistani security forces against peaceful demonstrators in Wadh, Balochistan.