A member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Quetta, the group said, as new cases of enforced disappearances were also reported in Gwadar, Awaran and Kech districts of Balochistan.
In a statement on Thursday, BYC said personnel from intelligence agencies, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and police carried out a joint raid at Golimar Chowk around 8:00 pm on Wednesday. It said Nazar Marri, an active member of the organisation, was taken into custody and has since been missing.
BYC described Marri as a young political activist who had “democratically” raised his voice against human rights violations and “Baloch genocide.” The group said his disappearance was part of a wider campaign to suppress peaceful political voices.
“The state of Pakistan is using force and violence as its last resort, but history bears witness that such policies ultimately lead to the defeat of states,” BYC said in its statement.
Meanwhile, in Gwadar district, Pakistani forces reportedly detained a man named Ajmal, son of Yaseen, on 21 August and transferred him to an unknown location. Since then, his family has received no information about his whereabouts.
In Awaran’s Jhao area, sources said forces raided homes and detained a man named Miran, son of Ibrahim. Miran, who had recently returned from working in the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, had previously been subjected to enforced disappearance in May 2025 before being released.
Separately, the Deputy Commissioner of Kech, Bashir Ahmed Barech, announced that through his intervention another victim of enforced disappearance, Hatim Ali, son of Khatir Ali, had been released and returned home.
BYC added that over the past six months there had been an “extraordinary increase” in cases of enforced disappearances, arrests of political activists, collective punishments and extrajudicial killings. It warned that state repression was generating “deep resentment” in society that could give rise to a mass movement.
The group appealed to human rights organizations, the media and the international community to intervene for the recovery of Nazar Marri and to address what it called ongoing human rights violations in Balochistan.