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Minor girl missing since 2023 rescued from Rajasthan's Pali, five arrested
Updated : 9 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The missing girl had disappeared on August 9, 2023, when she had gone for tuition and did not return. It was believed that she had been kidnapped.
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Pakistan: BYC protest over leaders' disappearance enters 24th day
Updated : 10 months ago IST
In a post on X, the BYC said, "For 24 days, Baloch families, mothers and sisters, have been sitting in Islamabad, demanding the release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders and an end to enforced disappearances. Instead of being allowed to set up a peaceful camp, they are met with p
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HRCP sounds alarm over deepening human rights crisis in Balochistan
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Following a week-long visit to Turbat and Quetta, the HRCP team, which included chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt, former senator Farhatullah Babar, and senior human rights advocates such as Nasreen Azhar and I A Rehman, recorded disturbing trends of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executio
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BASC Report exposes widespread enforced disappearances and killings in Bal
Updated : 10 months ago IST
This report records 674 instances of enforced disappearances, with 466 individuals remaining unaccounted for and only 208 having been released, revealing a troubling unresolved rate of 69.1%.
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Pak: Missing man's frozen body found after 28 years
Updated : 10 months ago IST
The remains were found in the Lady Meadows area of Palas, Kohistan, and identified as those of Naseer Uddin, who disappeared during a snowstorm while travelling through the remote Supat Valley, as per ARY News.
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Families of enforced disappeared leaders demand justice in Balochistan
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances in Balochistan have been a grave human rights issue for decades, rooted in the region's long-standing political and ethnic tensions. For the last several decades, Baloch nationalists, students, activists, and intellectuals have been targeted, allegedly by state securi
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Amid state intimidation, Baloch families continue sit-in protest demanding
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Families of detained and forcibly disappeared Baloch leaders continued with their sit-in protest in Islamabad despite facing harsh weather conditions and state intimidation, leading the Baloch human rights group, Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), reported on Saturday.
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BASC-SOAS Seminar highlights systematic human rights abuses against Baloch
Updated : 10 months ago IST
The Baloch Advocacy and Studies Centre held its first public seminar in London, highlighting serious human rights abuses against Baloch people in Iran and Pakistan, including killings and disappearances. Experts, activists, and UN representatives called for international attention and jus
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Year since Hasina fled, rights challenges abound in Bangladesh, says HRW
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Some of the fear and repression that marked Sheikh Hasina's Awami League Party's 15-year rule, and abuses such as widespread enforced disappearances, appear to have ended.
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Netherlands: BNM holds protest outside Pak embassy demanding justice for '
Updated : 10 months ago IST
The demonstration was aimed at exposing Pakistan's ongoing policy of state repression in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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BYC marks 13th day of Islamabad sit-in, remembers Baloch Raaji Muchi amid
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Balochistan has long been the centre of persistent human rights issues. The area has experienced cycles of violence related to separatist movements, a heavy military presence, forced disappearances, and economic neglect. These challenges have attracted attention from human rights groups, jou
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Protest erupts in Quetta over enforced disappearance of Ghani Baloch; fami
Updated : 10 months ago IST
His family claims that Ghani Baloch was taken into custody by Pakistani security forces on May 25. Since that date, they have experienced "no sign of our family's guiding light," expressing their feelings of "heartbreak, grief, and helplessness."
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