Ten individuals have reportedly been forcibly disappeared from Dera Bugti, while protests against the forced disappearance of a youth in the Kech district of Balochistan continued for the second day.
According to reports, Pakistani forces, along with secretive agencies, conducted a house-to-house search operation in Sui town of Dera Bugti and forcibly disappeared ten people in separate house raids.
Local sources told TBP correspondent that Pakistani forces conducted a raid in Zafar Colony and forcibly disappeared GTA District President and Jamhoori Watan Party activist Master Ghaus Bakhsh, son of Miran Bakhsh Bugti.
Similarly, Rahim Dad, son of Haji Bugti, and Rahim Dad, son of Swali Bugti, who were sitting at Musa Hotel in Tehsil Bazar of Sui, were also forcibly disappeared, allegedly by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and secret agency officials.
Meanwhile, Atifullah, son of Gobar Khan Bugti, went missing after being detained allegedly by Pakistani intelligence agencies from his home in the Jokra Morh area of Sui, while three more youths were also detained from Shahzain Pump area of Sui, who could not be identified immediately.
Sources further added that Faisal, son of Hanif Bugti, and Shah Hussain, son of Shah Gul Bugti, were also detained by CTD from the Labor Quarter of Sui Field Fence but both were released later in the evening.
On the other hand, the family of Bahadur Chakar, a resident of Tejaban area of Kech district, continued their sit-in protest against the forced disappearance by the Pakistan Army for the second day today.
On Saturday night, Pakistani forces allegedly raided the house of a young man named Bahadur Chakar in Tejaban Sang Kalat and detained him, after which his whereabouts remained undisclosed. Following the incident, the family and the locals blocked the M-8 CPEC highway and suspended traffic by staging a sit-in protest against the forced disappearance of the youth.
The family members spent last night on the CPEC route while the sit-in continued for the second day today.
It should be noted that forced disappearances have been ongoing in Balochistan for decades, and in the last 24 hours, 7 more Baloch students were detained from two districts of Balochistan and subsequently shifted to unknown locations, allegedly by Pakistani law-enforcement agencies.