Three young Baloch men, including an engineering student in Punjab, have reportedly been forcibly disappeared from Lahore and Quetta in recent days, while body recoveries of disappeared individuals continue across Balochistan.
According to local sources, Shozeb Saleem, son of Haji Saleem Buzdar and a resident of Model Town, Dera Ghazi Khan, was forcibly disappeared on 23 October while travelling to FAST University Lahore, where he is enrolled as a seventh-semester BS Civil Engineering student. Sources said personnel of Pakistani intelligence agencies abducted him, adding that “evidence of this is also available.”
In Quetta, two young men from the Jatoi family were reportedly taken into custody by Pakistani forces in separate nighttime raids. Family members said Najeebullah, son of Duran Jatoi, was disappeared on 22 October, while Nadeem, son of Azad Khan Jatoi, was taken on 29 October from the Eastern Bypass Link Road area. Families said both men were detained during house raids and moved to undisclosed locations.
Meanwhile, two additional bodies were recovered from different districts of Balochistan on Thursday. Police said a body bearing bullet wounds was found in the Baghbana area of Khuzdar and was later identified as Muhammad Ismail, son of Elahi Bakhsh of the Shahwani tribe.
In Panjgur, another body was recovered from the Shapatan area and shifted to the Teaching Hospital for identification.
These incidents come amid rising concern over enforced disappearances and the recovery of tortured bodies across Balochistan. Earlier this week, the body of schoolteacher Ayaz Baloch, who had been forcibly disappeared on 12 November 2025, was found in Buleda. According to his family, he was taken by Pakistani forces and a state-backed armed group while returning home from school.
In a statement, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) said Ayaz’s mutilated and decomposed body was recovered from the Reko dam area on 19 November, noting that the family identified him only through his clothes and shoes.
The BYC described his killing as part of an “extensive and ongoing pattern of state repression and grave human rights violations” in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, and the targeting of civilians such as teachers, students, activists, children and women, and urged international human rights bodies to take immediate notice.