The Balochistan community called for the release of missing individuals ahead of Eid-ul-Adha, with their absence casting a shadow over holiday preparations.
Two siblings hailing from Barkhan have been released and reunited with their families, following their abduction earlier this month while three more persons have been allegedly forcibly disappeared from Turbat and Taunsa Sahrif areas of Pakistan's Balochistan.
The Islamabad High Court's (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani on Monday ordered that Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad be declared a case of "enforced disappearance or missing person" until he returns home safely, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.
The families of forcibly disappeared Anees Baloch and Nazeer Ahmed Baloch blocked the major road near Balochistan's Khuzdar, a statement by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, a Baloch rights organization reported on Sunday.
Mahrang Baloch called forced disappearances a "serious crime" and accused the state of Pakistan of being involved in the forced disappearance of thousands of Baloch people.
The report paints a grim picture of the atrocities faced by the Baloch community, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, horrific road accidents, and false terrorist accusations against individuals who have vanished under mysterious circumstances.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) rejected the plea for bail of forcefully abducted Ahmed Farhad Shah. The court while rejecting the plea commented that the legal points stated by his counsel did not apply to the case at hand, Dawn reported.
Family members of forcibly disappeared Baloch students Shayhaq and Farooq Dad staged a sit-in protest at the Commissioner House Quetta and urged people from all walks of life to join the struggle to reunite disappeared ones with their families, said the Baloch Yakjehti Committee.
The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) has submitted a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council for its upcoming 56th Session, highlighting the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of Baloch people in Balochistan by Pakistani state authorities.