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HRCP sounds alarm over deepening human rights crisis in Balochistan
Updated : 7 months, 1 week 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 : 7 months, 1 week 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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Families of enforced disappeared leaders demand justice in Balochistan
Updated : 7 months, 1 week 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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BASC-SOAS Seminar highlights systematic human rights abuses against Baloch
Updated : 7 months, 1 week 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 : 7 months, 1 week 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 : 7 months, 1 week 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 : 7 months, 1 week 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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Paank report highlights alarming human rights violations in Balochistan, 8
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Paank, the human rights department of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), in its June report highlighted the alarming rise in cases of human rights violations taking place in Balochistan.
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Two young men go missing in Balochistan amid rising concern over enforced
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Hakeem Baloch recently graduated with an LLB degree from Bahawalpur, Punjab, and had only just begun his legal practice in Balochistan. His disappearance has raised concerns among civil society organisations, human rights advocates, and the legal community. They have expressed worry over
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Pakistan's crimes continue unabated against Baloch youth
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Pakistan continues with its spree of crimes against Baloch youth, leading Baloch body Paank shared the details on Thursday of forcible disappearances where civilians have been targeted by 'state forces and affiliated death squads'.
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Baloch families protest in Islamabad for 8th day, demand recovery of missi
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Despite continuous rain and deteriorating weather conditions, the protesters, who include women, children, and the elderly, persist in their nonviolent demonstration. However, authorities have not yet allowed them to establish a proper protest camp in front of the National Press Club, leavin
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Baloch families enter 7th day of Islamabad sit-in, demand release of BYC l
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
"Today marks the seventh consecutive day of the Islamabad sit-in by Baloch families demanding the release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders and an end to enforced disappearances in Balochistan," stated the post on X.
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