Months and years continue to pass in Balochistan, yet instead of any improvement in the prevailing conditions, serious problems are steadily worsening. The year 2025 witnessed an increase in enforced disappearances, an escalation of state repression, and...
With the passing of Mama Qadeer Baloch, Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, an era has come to an end. Fifteen years ago, Mama Qadeer and his comrades gave an institutional foundation to the peaceful...
On 14 December, during a press briefing at the Central Police Office in Quetta, Balochistan’s Additional Chief Secretary for Home and Tribal Affairs, Hamza Shafqat, and DIG Counter-Terrorism Department, Aitzaz Ahmed Goraya, stated that 78,000 intelligence-based military...
Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, is regarded as the centre of medical, educational, political and economic activity in the province. Yet despite this status, the city continues to be deprived of basic civic facilities. Since the Pakistan...
On the night of 30 November, a suicide attack was carried out on the Frontier Corps’ brigade headquarters in Nokundi, a subdivision of Chagai district in Balochistan. The assault lasted for almost thirty-six hours. The Balochistan Liberation...
The government imposed on Balochistan’s political landscape seems to have assumed that all the problems here can be solved through communication blackouts and the enforcement of Section 144. Since 6 November, the government has imposed Section 144...
Pakistan’s powerful institutions continue to pursue various policies aimed at suppressing the political resistance movement in Balochistan. Efforts to curb political activity through the use of force remain ongoing; controversial court rulings are being used to imprison...
Justice Athar Minallah of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has described extrajudicial killings as a grave violation of the Constitution and fundamental human rights while dismissing an appeal against the death sentence of Frontier Corps soldier Shadiullah,...
Balochistan’s controversial Chief Minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, during the 17th National Workshop in Quetta, described the ongoing armed struggle in the province as a conspiracy orchestrated by the Indian intelligence agency RAW, branding the Baloch national movement as terrorism. He...
In the Zehri tehsil of Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, the Pakistan Army has been conducting a large-scale operation using both aerial and ground forces, including tanks, artillery, gunship helicopters, and drones. So far, eleven people have been killed,...
