Periodical Reports

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,…

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…

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 were later released but the…

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 after a few days of torture…

Human rights violations continued unabated in Balochistan in November, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial execution of dissidents. In recent months, several journalists, intellectuals and teachers critical to government policies have…

A police constable shot and killed a woman in the Tump village of District Kech, Balochistan, on 18 October. The families of the constable, Aslam and Naim Hameed, had a…

Woman journalist Shaheena Shaheen, 25, was shot dead in Turbat on September 5. Two men left her body at the Civil Hospital and fled the scene. Her family registered a…

Fourteen persons were extra judicially killed in the month of August and 60 persons went missing from different areas of Balochistan, including a large number of women and children whisked…

Thirty-six persons went missing and twenty-seven murdered in various areas of Balochistan during the month of July 2020. Killed people include four persons of same family, killed by sate forces…

Killing of women at their homes seems to have become the new normal in Balochistan. A lady, 27-year-old Kulsoom, was killed by three robbers at her house in Dazin of…