At least nine people, including a 15-year-old tailor, two labourers and a university student, have been reported missing after being detained by Pakistani forces in separate incidents in Balochistan’s Quetta, Chagai and Panjgur districts, local sources and family members said.
Two other men from Kech district were released on June 17 after remaining missing for more than seven months, their families said.
Six of the latest cases were reported from Panjgur district.
Local sources said Pakistani forces forcibly disappeared Saadullah, son of Ghulam Jan, and Ziyab, son of Kohda Karim Jan, from a shop in Kohda Hakim Bazaar in Parom on June 15.
Three other men, Aziz, son of Hassan; Sadiq, son of Jan Muhammad; and Latif, son of Haji Saleem, were taken from their homes in the Legorak area of Parom on June 20, the sources said.
Zahid, son of Khuda Dost, a university student from Parom, was detained from the premises of the university in Panjgur city on June 10, they added. No information about the whereabouts of the six men has since emerged.
Meanwhile, two separate cases were reported from Quetta.
Twenty-one-year-old Adil Baloch, son of Muhammad Sharif, was detained by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel from the Sariab area at around 1 a.m. on June 6, according to his family. Adil, a labourer, has remained missing since.
Fifteen-year-old Sher Zaman Baloch was taken from his tailoring workshop in the Killi Almas area of Airport Road at around 6:30 p.m. on June 17.
His family said Pakistani forces detained him from the workshop, adding that they had received no information about his whereabouts since.
Separately, in Dalbandin, Chagai district, 18-year-old Obaid Baloch, son of Abdul Zahir Notezai, was taken into custody at around 6:30 p.m. on June 14. Obaid, who also worked as a labourer, remains missing.
Amid the latest reports, two men from Kech who had been missing since November 13, 2025, were released from Karachi’s Mauripur area on June 17.
They were identified as Pir Jan, son of Jamal, a resident of Sangabad Karki, and Abid, son of Karim Bakhsh, from Sarikalag in Gwarkop. Their families said both men returned home after remaining missing for more than seven months.
Pakistani authorities have not publicly commented on the reported detentions or disclosed whether any of the nine missing individuals are being held in official custody.