Family members and local sources in Hub Chowki say a Baloch woman has been detained during a raid and moved to an undisclosed location, in the latest reported case that activists describe as part of a widening pattern of enforced disappearances involving Baloch women.
Sources said personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), accompanied by other law enforcement personnel, raided a house on Thursday evening in the Daru Hotel area of Zehri Ghot, Hub Chowki, and took a woman into custody before transferring her to an unknown location.
The woman was identified as Hajira Baloch, the wife of a man named Sanaullah, according to the sources.
Her relatives said they have not been informed where she has been taken and have received no information about her whereabouts since the detention, leaving the family “deeply concerned and distressed”.
The development comes as relatives of Nasreen (Nasreena) Baloch, a 15-year-old girl missing since 22 November 2025, held a press conference on Thursday to demand her release and accuse police of refusing to register a case.
Nasreen’s family alleged that around midnight on 22 November, about 15 armed individuals forced their way into their home and took her away. They said five of the intruders were wearing Frontier Corps (FC) uniforms, while the others were in plain clothes, and that a woman was also accompanying the group.
They said the armed men vandalised the house, scattered household belongings and locked family members inside a room before taking Nasreen away. The family said no information has been provided about her whereabouts since then and that she has not been produced before any authority despite the passage of 27 days.
They also alleged that police have refused to register a First Information Report (FIR) despite a written application being submitted immediately after the incident.
Saying they had exhausted legal avenues, the family said they were turning to the media “out of desperation” and appealed to authorities and state institutions to release Nasreen immediately.
They said that if any allegation existed against her, she should be produced before a court in accordance with the Constitution and the law and subjected to a transparent and fair investigation.
There was no immediate official response to the allegations regarding either case.
Dr Sabiha Baloch, a leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), said in a post on X that Hajira Baloch’s detention marked the fifth case this year in which a Baloch woman had been forcibly disappeared, describing it as part of a “deliberate state policy of unlawful detention and enforced disappearance.”
In the same post, she listed earlier cases as Mahjabeen Baloch, who she said was taken from Quetta on 29 May; Nasreen Baloch, taken from Hub Chowki on 22 November; Raheema Baloch, taken from Dalbandin on 9 December; and Farzana Baloch, taken from Khuzdar on 1 December.
Dr Sabiha said the addition of a fifth case this year “confirms a systematic pattern of repression and collective punishment,” and argued that a lack of action had contributed to further disappearances of Baloch women.
She urged international human rights bodies, including the United Nations and global rights organizations, to intervene and hold Pakistani authorities accountable.