Periodical Reports

Balochistan: The State of Human Rights in 2025

HRCB

This report documents the systematic and widespread human rights violations recorded in Balochistan, Pakistan, throughout the year 2025. The findings reveal a severe deterioration of the human rights situation in 2025, characterized by a sharp escalation in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, suppression of peaceful dissent, and the targeted persecution of civil society actors, journalists, lawyers, and activists.

Key findings at a glance:

  • Enforced disappearances carried out by Pakistani forces, secret agencies,  and their backed local militias surged to 1,482 cases in 2025, representing a 79% increase from the year 2024.
  • 598 killings were documented, reflecting approximately a 25% increase from the cases in 2024.
  • Security forces and state-sponsored death squads were responsible for 325 killings (54.3% of the total).
  • 108 minors were among the enforced disappearance victims; 29 minors were killed.
  • The Frontier Corps (FC) was identified as the primary perpetrator in both enforced disappearances (897 cases) and killings (195 cases).
  • Peaceful protesters, journalists, lawyers, and human rights defenders faced systematic legal harassment, arbitrary arrest, and physical violence.

These violations took place against a backdrop of large-scale military operations, communication blackouts, restrictions on freedom of assembly, and the weaponization of counter-terrorism legislation to criminalize legitimate political and humanitarian activity.

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HRCB

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.