Four bodies recovered in separate incidents in Balochistan’s Panjgur and Kech districts have been identified, including a young man whose family says he had been forcibly disappeared last year.
According to hospital sources, three bodies brought to the District Teaching Hospital in Panjgur were identified as Shakir, son of Arz Muhammad, a resident of Garmkan; Izzatullah, son of Muhammad Aziz, from Chitkan; and Zaid, son of Shah Ji Rehmatullah, also from Garmkan.
The bodies were shifted to the hospital by police, where identification procedures were completed, sources said.
Officials have not disclosed where the three bodies were recovered or the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
Sources said the bodies bore multiple bullet wounds, although authorities have not issued an official statement regarding the cause of death.
In a separate incident, a body recovered from the Dasht area of Kech district was identified after being shifted to the hospital as Faqeer Ali, son of Ali Bakhsh, a resident of Union Council Jamak, Gwarkop.
Family sources said Faqeer Ali had been detained by Pakistani forces from the Shahabad area of Absar last year and had remained missing since then.
According to the family, relatives had repeatedly met former Kech Deputy Commissioner Bashir Ahmed Barech regarding Faqeer Ali’s enforced disappearance, but were given repeated assurances.
The family alleged that Faqeer Ali was killed while in custody.
Relatives said former Deputy Commissioner Barech had, on several occasions, assured families of missing persons that the recovery of their loved ones could be facilitated if they avoided sit-ins and protests against enforced disappearances. Faqeer Ali’s body, they said, has now been recovered despite those assurances.
Pakistani authorities have not issued an immediate statement on the family’s allegations or the circumstances surrounding Faqeer Ali’s death.
Cases involving the recovery of bodies of people previously reported missing have been reported in Balochistan in recent years. Families and human rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns over enforced disappearances and custodial killings, while Pakistani authorities have denied involvement in such incidents.