Several leading human rights organisations and student bodies today strongly condemned the escalating wave of enforced disappearances of Baloch civilians, including women, across Pakistan, allegedly carried out by Pakistani security forces. These organisations said that for many affected families, Eid has turned into a period of grief, uncertainty and painful separation from their loved ones.
According to the Baloch Students Council (BSC) of Pakistan’s Punjab province, multiple students affiliated with the organisation’s Punjab and Islamabad chapters have been forcibly disappeared. Meanwhile, another Baloch woman, Habiba Peerjan, a resident of the Nazarabad Tump region in Balochistan, who is currently based in Karachi, was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces on May 25 following a raid at her residence in Baldia Town. According to the Baloch Women Forum, the repeated targeting of Baloch women through enforced disappearances highlights a deeply troubling system of repression and collective punishment. Condemning the incident, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, demanded the immediate and safe release of Habiba, while calling on the Pakistani authorities to end the ongoing practice of enforced disappearances and harassment of families in Balochistan and Karachi.
