Pakistani forces conducted house-to-house searches in Balochistan’s Surab district, where residents said personnel threatened and beat them during the operation.
Residents said large numbers of personnel entered the Rodeni and Damb areas on Friday evening. However, no arrests were reported.
They also accused forces officials of pressuring them to leave their homes and land, and alleged that civilian settlements had been subjected to repeated drone attacks.
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Residents said families living near a Pakistani forces camp had previously been forced to relocate. More than 20 civilians had also been detained in Surab bazaar and taken to the camp, they added.
The allegations come amid reports of forced displacement in several parts of Balochistan, where locals have been ordered to leave their homes ahead of military operations.
In Kalat’s Shoor Paarod area, the Balochistan government ordered approximately 5,000 families, comprising around 30,000 people, to leave their homes by October 30 and move to designated camps.
Additional Chief Secretary for Home Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat warned, “If they do not vacate the area, the forces will remove them by force.”
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Paank, the human rights department of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), condemned the order, saying the presence of armed fighters and the government’s claim that the area was state land did not justify arbitrary displacement.
“Ancestral land is not merely territory; it is the foundation of a people’s identity, history and collective existence,” the rights organisation said.
Paank also warned that moving thousands of families into camps in one of Balochistan’s coldest areas could put their health and lives at risk as winter approached.
It questioned how authorities would guarantee shelter, heating, healthcare, clean water and sanitation when the same communities had long lacked basic facilities in their own homes.