Two women and two young children from the same family were detained during a raid in Quetta and have remained missing since, family sources said on Thursday.
Personnel of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Frontier Corps (FC) raided a house in Gashkori Town at around 4am on Aug. 19 and detained the four members of a family from Mastung, the sources said. Their whereabouts remain unknown.
The women were identified as Umaira, 27, and Najma, 28, both daughters of Abdul Rasool and housewives.
Also missing are eight-year-old Montessori student Parisa, daughter of Man Dost, and one-and-a-half-year-old Zakir, son of Abdul Haq.
The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) condemned the incident and said the four had been denied contact with their relatives since being taken from the house.
The group described the disappearance of a one-and-a-half-year-old child as “particularly horrifying”, saying it showed that women and infants were not spared from enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
It demanded the immediate and safe recovery of all four and called for their whereabouts to be publicly disclosed.