Four Baloch students were allegedly detained by Pakistani security personnel from the hostel of Sindh Agriculture University in Tando Jam, Hyderabad, and taken to an undisclosed location, fellow students said on Wednesday.
Witnesses at the university said plainclothes personnel entered the hostel and detained the four, who had recently arrived in Tando Jam to visit the Agriculture Department. Their whereabouts remain unknown.
The missing students were identified as Imran, son of Saifullah; Aftab, son of Ghulam Mustafa; and Mehrullah, son of Muhammad Qasim, all residents of Wadh in Khuzdar district,as well as Shoaib, son of Abdul Hayee, a resident of Surab.
Baloch rights groups say the targeting of Baloch students has intensified in recent months. Paank, the human rights wing of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), said 785 people have been forcibly disappeared in Balochistan so far in 2025, most of them young students.
Amnesty International recently highlighted the disappearances of Baloch students on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, calling on Pakistan to disclose the whereabouts of all those missing and describing enforced disappearance as a “heinous practice that must end.”
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in a recent fact-finding report, also warned that such cases “continue unabated” in Balochistan and are fuelling public alienation.