Pakistan security forces have reportedly abducted four oil traders in Balochistan's Panjgur district. The individuals were taken from Paroom tehsil, with families and local activists condemning the abductions as "inhumane." The incident highlights ongoing issues of enforced disappearances
The Pakistan security forces forcibly abducted Farid Baloch from the Panjgur district in Balochistan during a raid. The Balochistan Post reported that Fareed was forcibly disappeared by the Pakistan security forces in the Khudabadan area of Panjgur.
Pakistan's heavy-handed restrictions on border trade with Iran have plunged the border towns of Balochistan's Rakhshan and Makran divisions into turmoil, crippling the local economy and intensifying poverty in one of the country's most neglected provinces, according to a report by Dawn.
Amid ongoing enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by Pakistan's armed forces in Balochistan, recent sit-in protests have emerged in major cities, including Panjgur, Kharan, and Pasni, as families demand the recovery of their loved ones.
Panjgur Deputy Commissioner Zakir Hussain Baloch was killed and four others were injured in a firing incident on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway near Mastung on Monday, according to officials, Dawn reported.
The employees of the Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) staged a protest outside the Quetta Press Club, demanding the payment of their salaries and dues.
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, condemned activist Naveed Baloch's extrajudicial killing in a post on social media platform X.
The issue of enforced disappearances has been a matter of concern in Balochistan for a long time. The Baloch community in this area has been a target of Pakistan's atrocities and bears the brunt in vivid forms of inhumane treatment ranging from enforced disappearances to extrajudicial killin
With Pakistan's general elections drawing near, at least nine grenade attacks, targeting election offices of candidates and polling stations, were carried out in various parts of Pakistan's Makran division and Quetta, on Tuesday