A protest sit-in by Baloch families demanding an end to enforced disappearances, the recovery of missing persons, and the release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders entered its 51st day in Islamabad on Thursday, with participants staging...
At least 17 people have allegedly been forcibly disappeared in raids by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Dera Bugti and Awaran districts of Balochistan, according to sources and rights groups.
Afghanistan’s Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob has accused Pakistan of shifting blame onto Kabul to conceal its own failures in tackling the Baloch armed struggle, rejecting Islamabad’s claims that fighters of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehrik-i-Taliban...
Four Baloch students were allegedly detained by Pakistani security personnel from the hostel of Sindh Agriculture University in Tando Jam, Hyderabad, and taken to an undisclosed location, fellow students said on Wednesday.
Witnesses at...
More than 800 people have been killed and around 2,500 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, according to Taliban officials.
The quake was centred near the city of Jalalabad...
Reports from Balochistan, Karachi and Islamabad indicate a series of new alleged enforced disappearances, the recovery of a previously missing lawyer, and continuing protests by families demanding the return of their loved ones.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told a regional summit on Monday that the insurgency in Balochistan “poses a threat” to the entire Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and accused foreign powers of involvement in recent attacks, which he...
A Pakistan Army helicopter crashed during a training flight in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday, killing all five crew members on board, the military’s media wing said.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Army Aviation...
Protest rallies, sit-ins and conferences were held across Pakistan on Saturday to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, with rights groups, political leaders and families of the missing calling on Pakistani authorities to...
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, eight human rights and civil society organizations accused Pakistani authorities of systematically failing to end the practice and provide truth, justice and reparations to victims and their...
