Dr Ghulam Rasool: A messiah left paralysed
Dr Ghulam Rasool, once a charming, ambitious physician in the metropolis of Karachi, has been paralyzed for years now and is currently on a...
Caught between Survival, Disappearance, and Resistance: The Dilemma of Visiting Pakistani Military Camps
Introduction:
In the conflict-ridden Balochistan region, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by Pakistan's armed forces have unfortunately become the norm. Thousands of ethnic Baloch, a...
Zahid Kurd has been missing for seven years
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...
Torture victim killed by military-backed death squad
On May 3, 2021, two civilians were killed in Panjgur by, as usual, ‘unknown gunmen’ in a Vigo pickup truck. The truck stopped the...
Replug: Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch missing for 12 years
(Note: this article was published last year, on 11th anniversary of Dr.'s enforced disappearance)
Daughters of Dr Deen Mohammad and families members of other missing...
CTD killing missing persons in fake encounters
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) gunned down five people on the outskirt of Quetta city, the capital of Balochistan, on July 06. In a...
Najib and his missing father: A Tale of Collective Punishment
Since efforts on the ground are not bearing much fruit in providing justice to the families of victims of enforced disappearances in Pakistan, social...
Forces burned down settlement, disappeared grandchildren of missing man
The security forces raided a house in Toba Gichk area of district Washuk and forcibly disappeared two minor siblings. The forces also burned down...
Extrajudicial killings: Traced cases of Balochistan
Summary
In 2009, Pakistan state switched pace to what is known as the notorious Kill and Dump policy following years of enforced disappearances across Balochistan....
Why dead bodies protest in Balochistan?
The last time Mehrab Khan buried a child was in December 2020 when his 8-year-old relative Hamza Umer was killed by army helicopter shelling...
