A young man has reportedly been killed by Pakistani security forces during a military operation in Balochistan’s Kalat district, according to local sources.
The victim, identified as Saud Nechari, was found dead in an orchard in the Chotank area of Manguchar, where a military search operation had been underway for two days.
Residents said troops entered the orchard—reportedly owned by the Nechari family—after conducting searches in the surrounding area. Saud was allegedly detained, tortured, and then shot dead by security personnel, who left his body at the scene.
Eyewitnesses said the body bore at least six gunshot wounds. Local authorities later transferred the body to a hospital.
Sources said security personnel themselves notified the Deputy Commissioner and other administrative officials about the presence of a body in the orchard.
Saud Nechari was the brother of Kifayatullah Nechari, who was reportedly abducted by Pakistani forces in 2015 at the age of 15 and remains missing.
Following Kifayatullah’s enforced disappearance, the family staged a protest sit-in in Islamabad demanding his release. In the aftermath of the demonstration, their home was allegedly raided by security forces.
Human rights groups and Baloch civil society organizations have long accused Pakistani forces of systemic extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances across the region.
In a recent statement, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) said: “Balochistan has been transformed into a landscape of silence and graves… Survival itself has become an act of resistance.”
The group alleged that extrajudicial killings have become a “systemic tool of repression”, describing a pattern in which Baloch civilians are “targeted arbitrarily, often under vague suspicions or as collective punishment”, particularly in remote areas with no media or legal oversight.
Pakistani authorities had not issued an official statement on the Manguchar incident. However, they have consistently denied allegations of systematic human rights violations in Balochistan.