Balochistan 2020: The pandemic year made worse by continued army atrocities. 480 people disappeared,...
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,...
Balochistan: 14 forcibly disappeared, 16 killed in February 2021
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...
Forces kill five missing persons in fake encounter
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...
Children’s names put on ECL as father completes nine years of disappearance
On February 12, 2012, Dost Mohammad and Imran Baloch boarded a flight from Panjgur which was destined for Karachi. On arriving in Karachi, both...
New year, same old story of State cruelty in Balochistan
At least 10 disappeared, over 32 killed in different incidents
In the first month of 2021, security forces forcibly disappeared 14 people, four of whom...
Pakistan army continued to abduct, kill in Balochistan as 2020 ended
In the last month of 2020, Pakistan’s security forces forcibly disappeared 49 people from different areas of Balochistan. Twenty-one of the abducted were released...
Man whose father was abducted and killed picked up by army
Waheed Ilahi Bakhsh has been forcibly disappeared by the Pakistan army some hundred meters from his home in Dolechi Jhao area of district Awaran....
Balochistan: Children among five killed, seven disappeared
The tortured bodies of two teenagers were found in Hirronk village of district Kech, Balochistan, on 07 December 2020. The deceased were Hanif Miran,...
Military killed two brothers, abducted old couple along with grandchildren
Family Disappeared:
On December 3, 2020, army officials stopped two local transport vehicles at Syahdam checkpost in Gichk area of district Panjgur and detained the...
Balochistan: Nineteen people, including two in name of honour, killed in November
Human rights violations continued unabated in Balochistan in November, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial execution of dissidents. In recent months, several journalists, intellectuals and...