Six more people have allegedly been forcibly disappeared in Quetta and Kech districts of Balochistan, families and local sources said, as the protest camp run by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) marked its 6,047th day on Sunday.
In Quetta’s Killi Sorab Khan Qambrani area, personnel from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Frontier Corps (FC) reportedly raided a house at about 1am on 4 January. Residents said four people were detained and moved to an undisclosed location.
The missing were identified as Dawood Baloch, son of Haji Shah Bakhsh; Umar Baloch, son of Haji Shah Bakhsh; Naseebullah, son of Shehdad Khan; and a minor boy, Gwahram, son of Faiz Muhammad. Families said they had received no information about their whereabouts.
In Kech district, local sources said Pakistani forces carried out house-to-house searches in the Goburd area of Mand the same night. Two brothers, Sarwar and Hazir, sons of Bashir, were detained and later disappeared, they said.
Family of Missing Girl Visits VBMP Camp
At the VBMP protest camp outside the Quetta Press Club, relatives of 15-year-old Nasreen (Nasreena) Baloch met the organization’s leadership and provided details of her disappearance.
Nasreen, a resident of Awaran, was allegedly forcibly disappeared during a midnight raid in Hub Chowki on 22 November. The family said repeated attempts to register a First Information Report (FIR) had been unsuccessful, and that police had not provided any information on her case.
VBMP chairman Nasrullah Baloch assured the family that the organization would raise the matter with the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances and the provincial government.
He urged senior authorities to “take immediate notice” of disappearances of Baloch women and said that, if any allegations existed, detainees should be produced before courts. If not, he said, they should be released “so that their families may be relieved of prolonged suffering.”