Quetta, August 27, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
A Baloch human rights organisation has alleged that Pakistani security forces were responsible for the killing of a man and the enforced disappearance of a young woman in separate incidents in Balochistan.
Paank, the Human Rights Department of the Baloch National Movement, said Akbar Haider, a resident of the Turbat region, was killed by Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) during a raid on his residence on August 25.
Condemning the alleged killing, Paank described it as a serious violation of the right to life and an abuse of state authority. It also called for an independent, transparent and impartial judicial investigation into the incident and urged the Pakistani authorities to hold those responsible accountable.
The organisation referred to Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which protects individuals against arbitrary deprivation of life.
In a separate incident, Paank alleged that 20-year-old student Safia Baloch was forcibly taken from Quetta in the early hours of August 23 by Pakistani forces.
The organisation demanded that authorities immediately disclose her whereabouts and release her, while ensuring her safety and protection from torture or ill-treatment. It also called for Safia’s family to be provided information about her condition and whereabouts.
The Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) said Safia’s case was part of what it described as a wider pattern of enforced disappearances of women in the province. It claimed that 23 women were abducted by security forces between January and July 2026.
The HRCB also linked the case to that of Mahjabeen, a resident of Washuk who was reportedly abducted from Quetta on May 29, 2025, and whose whereabouts remain unknown.
Shalee Baloch, central organiser of the Baloch Women Forum (BWF), also condemned the alleged disappearance, describing the reported abductions of Baloch women as “alarming and intolerable”.
In a post on X, she named several women, including Habiba, Mahjabeen, Nasreena, Humaira, Najma and Safia, as victims of what she described as a growing pattern of enforced disappearances.
The allegations could not be independently verified.
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