Their inquiries focus on issues arising from recent protests, anti-terrorism policies, accountability laws, widespread enforced disappearances, the right to life amid climate change, death penalty practices, and violations of women's rights
Leading Baloch human rights organisation, The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) announced that in Pakistan's continued vindictive actions against the Baloch community, innocent students had been arrested by the Pak authorities.
In a post on the social media platform X, Human Rights Activist Mahrang Baloch shared her experience with the Pakistani authorities who had previously harrased her by filing a baseless FIR as she was returning from Karachi.
The BLA emphasised that Pakistan has consistently failed to sever the centuries-old brotherly bond between the Baloch and Pashtuns. On one hand, the Pakistani military extorts millions of rupees in security fees from coal mines; on the other, it perpetrates massacres against the labourers wo
In yet another incidence of atrocious suppression of dissent of Balochs, Pakistan has registered an FIR against the activist Mahrang Baloch, alleging her of inciting hatred, turning young people against the state, and aiding terrorism.
The FIR was filed under Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997, additionally with sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of an offence committed in prosecution of a common object), 124-A (s
On October 3, the Baloch National Movement's human rights wing, Paank, revealed that Imran Baloch, a farmer and the sole breadwinner of his family, was forcibly taken by Pakistan's security forces from Gwadar.
On Wednesday, Pakistani security forces and intelligence agencies conducted raids on the hostels of Punjab University and the University of Lahore, reportedly detaining three students and transferring them to unknown locations.
Baloch rights activist Mahrang Baloch expressed concern on Pakistan government's decision to ban the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and dubbed it as "severe encroachment to democratic principles."
Amid ongoing enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by Pakistan security forces, reports have emerged of the forced disappearance of four people in the Kharan district of Balochistan