Seven Baloch men have reportedly been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces in the districts of Kech, Gwadar, and Panjgur in Balochistan.
In Panjgur’s Chitkan Bazaar, Pakistani forces raided a mobile phone shop on 28 May, detaining at least five people, including Wahab Baloch, a well-known young businessman. Wahab and the four others were reportedly taken to an undisclosed location, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
Local sources said security personnel vandalized the shop during the raid, confiscating numerous high-value mobile phones, worth millions of rupees.
In Turbat, the administrative centre of Kech district, Pakistani forces detained Bahram, son of Wahid, a police department employee from the Singani Sar area.
In Pasni, Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rehman, Provincial President of Jamaat-e-Islami Balochistan and a member of the Provincial Assembly, said his cousin’s son, Muhammad, son of Nabi Bakhsh, had also been forcibly disappeared by security forces. “What do these powerful people want?” he questioned.
Human rights organizations have repeatedly raised concerns over what they describe as an escalating pattern of “state-led violence” in Balochistan, where enforced disappearances have become a daily occurrence.
Baloch advocacy groups, including the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Paank, and the Baloch Women Forum (BWF), have called on the United Nations, international human rights organizations, and global civil society to take urgent notice of the situation. They have urged the international community to pressure Pakistani authorities to end the practice of enforced disappearances and to launch independent, transparent investigations into the incidents.