Human Rights Council of Balochistan

Decision on university harassment scandal doesn’t serve justice

We welcome the decision of the syndicate board of Balochistan University against the culprits of University scandal. However, so far, no steps have been taken to demilitarize the campus despite several appeals made from students and human rights organizations. Militarization of the university played a major role in the scandal.

HRCB July 28, 2020

News Reports

Enforced disappearance of OST office bearers is alarming.

In less than two weeks, officials of intelligence agencies have forcibly disappeared five Baloch social workers in multiple raids from Malir, Lyari, and Gulshan-e-Mazdoor areas of Karachi. Qayyum Baloch, aka…

HRCB July 23, 2020

News Reports

Karachi: Disappeared social worker at risk of torture

Abdul Qayyum, aka Wapa, was forcibly disappeared by security forces on 10 July from Shah Faisal Colony, Maleer in Karachi, the capital city of Sindh. His whereabouts remain unknown so…

HRCB July 14, 2020

News Reports

Balochistan: Harnai killings latest in series of army atrocities

Four persons of a family were killed by the Pakistani military in a raid in the Nishpa area of Harnai, Balochistan, on Monday. Two men of the family were also…

HRCB July 10, 2020

Periodical Reports

Woman slain, four students among thirty-three disappeared in June.

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…

HRCB July 6, 2020

News Reports

Balochistan: Army whisked away four family members including two brothers. Father killed in 2016

Four young men of the same family were forcibly disappeared after being stopped at a military check-post situated few hundred meters from their home in Sari Gadagi on June 9,…

HRCB June 11, 2020

Periodical Reports

Balochistan: 20 killed in May, 29 disappeared, woman’s killing by ‘State-backed robbers’ sparks protests

A four-year-old baby girl, Bramsh, was shot and injured and her mother Malik Naz killed when a group of three robbers broke into their house on May 26 at around…

HRCB June 9, 2020

News Reports

Balochistan: Elder brother succumbed to torture injuries, youngest remain disappeared

Javed Gwahram — who had been abducted by the Pakistani army early this month, tortured and then released — succumbed to his injuries in Karachi on Tuesday. On May 7,…

HRCB May 27, 2020

Press Release

Balochistan: Produce victims of enforced disappearances in court.

The HRCB stands with the protesting and grieving families of Balochistan’s missing persons on the eve of Eid ul Fitr. We support their demands for the release of their loved…

HRCB May 24, 2020

News Reports

Another student-cum-cultural activist forcibly disappeared in Balochistan

Sana Syapad is a student in Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, where he was supposed to complete his M. Phil. He is the president of a literary society, Naseer…

HRCB May 13, 2020