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Pakistan: Petition urges Lahore High Court to halt alleged fake police enc
Updated : 3 months ago IST
A petition in the Lahore High Court accuses Punjab's Crime Control Department of hundreds of fake police encounters since 2025. It demands enforcement of a law requiring FIA investigations into custodial deaths, claiming courts have already ruled such encounters illegal but no action has bee
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New Balochistan killings put spotlight on Pakistan's handling of enforced
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
In yet another grim episode highlighting Pakistan's worsening human rights record in Balochistan, the mutilated bodies of five men were found across three districts, one of whom had previously been "forcibly disappeared", as reported by The Balochistan Post.
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Pakistan's border politics helping Iran crush Baloch voices, BASC report r
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
A new report by the Baloch Advocacy and Studies Center (BASC) analysing human rights violations in Iran's Balochistan region has exposed alarming levels of state-sanctioned violence against the Baloch minority, pointing to Pakistan's indirect complicity through its cross-border economic and
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Human rights crisis deepens in Balochistan, reveals Paank report
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The report paints a grim picture of what it calls "systematic state-sponsored violence," accusing Pakistani security institutions and their allied militias of carrying out widespread abductions, torture, and killings across the province, as reported by The Balochistan Post.
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Pakistan accused of state-sponsored killings as bodies of three disappeare
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At least three bodies of Baloch men who had earlier been reported as victims of enforced disappearance were discovered in Kech district, Balochistan, on Friday, the latest addition to a grim pattern of extrajudicial killings and state-linked abductions, as reported by The Balochistan Post.
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Baloch Students Organisation Azad accuses Pak forces of killing Baloch tea
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to BSO-Azad, Ayaz Baloch, a teacher hailing from Buleda, was killed by what they termed "state-sponsored death squads" that function as part of a counterinsurgency strategy. The organisation claimed that Pakistani forces employ proxy armed groups to execute extrajudicial killings t
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Baloch activist accuses Pakistani military of genocide-scale repression in
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Baloch leader Mehran Marri has delivered a scathing indictment of Pakistan's human rights record in Balochistan, alleging widespread enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detentions that he describes as "genocide at full escalation."
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Human Rights Watch raises fair trial concerns over Bangladesh death senten
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death in absentia for the 2024 protest crackdown. Human Rights Watch said the trial violated fair trial standards and warned of serious human rights concerns.
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Pakistan accused again as missing Baloch men found tortured to death
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Two missing Baloch men were found dead in separate areas of Balochistan, sparking renewed fears of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings allegedly by Pakistani security forces. Rights groups and families accuse authorities of a continuing pattern of abductions, torture, and cust
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BASC report reveals sharp rise in killings and disappearances in Balochist
Updated : 4 months ago IST
A new report by the Baloch Advocacy and Studies Centre (BASC) has revealed an alarming surge in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, exposing the scale of Pakistan's violent suppression of dissent amid its drive to exploit the province's mineral wealth.
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Pakistan's forces accused of butchering civilians in Balochistan's ongoing
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has blamed Pakistan's armed forces and state-sponsored militias for what it termed part of an ongoing "kill-and-dump" campaign targeting civilians, as reported by The Balochistan Post.
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Pakistan's police encounters replace rule of law, HRCP warns of alarming r
Updated : 5 months ago IST
According to HRCP, more than 500 police encounters have taken place in the province since January 2025, resulting in over 670 deaths, a figure higher than in any other province.
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