According to PAANK, security forces have been conducting raids at homes and student hostels, forcibly disappearing students and Baloch Youth Council (BYC) activists, and filing false FIRs against them.
After the release, Butt told reporters that he was detained for 3-4 hours "without any solid reason" and was released after pressure mounted on them, as reported by Pakistan-based Express Tribune.
The local administration's attempts to thwart this peaceful assembly have raised serious concerns. Paank criticized these actions as part of a disturbing pattern of repression intended to silence dissent and obscure systemic abuses within the region.
The Baloch Women Forum (BWF), an organisation advocating for Baloch women's rights, has strongly condemned the unlawful detention of Baloch girls by security forces in Khuzdar district of Balochistan, Pakistan.
The detentions, conducted by Frontier Corps (FC) personnel, have sparked outrage among activists and rights groups, who accuse the Pakistani state of escalating its repression of Baloch dissent.
PAANK, the Human Rights Wing of the Baloch National Movement, on Friday, lamented the local administration and its security agencies for "suppressing" peaceful human rights protests in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
The Pakistani forces have allegedly detained 54 individuals across 12 districts of Balochistan, Pakistan in June, raising concerns about the surge in cases of enforced disappearances, according to a report.
According to PAANK, the human rights department of the Baloch National Movement, a Baloch rights organisation from Pakistan, Zaheer was forcibly abducted by men belonging to the Pakistani forces on June 27 this year.
The rally was organized to celebrate India's momentous victory over Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War. The rally was organised by the Indian Army in collaboration with SAEL and NGO Pawan Prithvi Paani.
The home of Minaj Mukthar a singer from Balochistan was raided and his family was tortured by Pakistani law enforcement agencies recently in the Kech district of Balochistan.
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, condemned activist Naveed Baloch's extrajudicial killing in a post on social media platform X.