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.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday declined a plea raised by Pakistan's central government to shut down the case of forcibly disappeared poet Ahmed Farhad until the victim does not appear before the court personally, The News International reported.
Several people on Friday blocked Quetta Brewery Road to protest against the enforced disappearance of six Baloch students from Quetta and the police's failure to register an FIR.
Baloch rights activist Sammi Deen Baloch received the Front Line Defenders (FLD) Award in the Enforced Disappearances category at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland on Friday.
During the protest held on Tuesday, participants raised slogans and announced that they will undertake a major protest in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) for the release of Ahmed Farhad and other political prisoners.
The Baloch Yakjeheti Committee in a statement released on Sunday raised concerns over the alarming rise in the number of enforced disappearances, calling it an endless cycle of pain for the Baloch community.
In her statement, the Baloch leader highlighted that during the last two decades, in the name of counter-insurgency operations and peace, a large number of people have been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces.
The daughter of the forcibly disappeared activist Ameer Baksh Baloch, Sadaf Ameer Baloch announced to launch of a social media campaign demanding the safe release of enforced disappearance victims.
Additional Superintendent of Police (SP), Guntur District, Nachikethan told ANI, "Section 144 is in effect throughout the district during the current election counting period. It stipulates that no more than four people can gather anywhere. Additionally, due to recent violent incidents in so