Enforced disappearances are increasing with each passing day in Balochistan, and protests against this are continuing across the region. In the district of Kech, the families of Zaman Jan and Abdul Hassan are holding a sit-in on the CPEC road in Hoshab, demanding their recovery. Meanwhile, Rashid Hussain’s family has been protesting in the district of Hub.
Rashid Hussain Baloch was forcibly disappeared from the United Arab Emirates and unlawfully transferred to Pakistan, where he has yet to be presented in any court. For the past six years, Rashid Hussain’s elderly mother has been part of protest movements, raising her voice in the hope of her son’s recovery.
Enforced disappearances of political activists and students in Balochistan have been ongoing for two decades, but in recent years, Baloch political activists outside Pakistan have also been targeted. Thousands of political activists have fled the conflict-ridden conditions of Balochistan and migrated abroad, but certain countries have endangered their lives by handing over individuals associated with the Baloch struggle to Pakistan.
Rashid Hussain’s mother, like hundreds of other Baloch mothers, lives a life of anguish, finding no other means but protests to fight for the recovery of their loved ones. Pakistan’s courts and human rights commissions have failed to provide justice to the families of the disappeared, leaving Baloch mothers to view relentless protest as the only way to seek the return of their dear ones.