Human Rights Council of Balochistan (Hakkpaan) is a non-profit and non-partisan human rights group based in Balochistan and Sweden. It collects reports from Balochistan, a region Pakistan government does not allow any media and HR group to visit and report.
Human rights violations in Balochistan is not a new phenomenon, but it got its worst levels after the Military coup de tat of Pakistan in 1999. Thousands of Baloch have been reported missing, hundreds killed in fake encounters and so-called kill and dump policy of the military.
HRCB collects the data from Balochistan itself, through its network of volunteers and supporters, organizes and reports them to the human rights mechanisms of the world.
On June 01, 2021, some gunmen broke into the house of Bahadur Ali Kiazai in Quetta and whisked him away. He was taken in front of his family. According to…
Forty people were abducted and disappeared by security forces and personnel of intelligence agencies in different parts of Balochistan in the month of May, while 27 were killed. On May…
Zakir Majeed, a student leader was abducted by personnel of intelligence agencies on 08 June 2009, in Mastung area of Balochistan. He was accompanied by two friends. His friends, Waheed…
Twenty-one cases of abduction and enforced disappearance were reported from various areas of Balochistan during April - one of whom was released later - while 38 people were killed during…
Ten years old M. A (name kept anonymous) was raped by a Frontier Corps personnel in Hoshab area of district Kech and later dumped unconscious in a rivulet nearby. According…
In March 2021, Pakistan’s security forces forcibly disappeared 65 people from different areas of Balochistan. Fifteen of them were later released while the whereabouts of others remain unknown till the…
Summary: Throughout the year 2020, the humanitarian situation in Balochistan remained grim like the previous years. Human rights violations such as acts of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, forced displacement, torture,…
Zahid Baloch was abducted by Pakistan’s security forces from Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan, in front of witnesses on March 18, 2014. Eyewitnesses included Karima Baloch, the human rights…
In February, Pakistan’s paramilitary forces abducted 19 people, and 21 people were killed in different areas of Balochistan. On Feb 2, forces conducted an operation in the Saro area of…
In a statement issued on 08 March, the Counter Terrorism Department said they killed five members of an armed nationalist group during an intelligence-guided raid on a hideout in Mastung,…