Enforced disappearances cast a pall over Balochistan, with Pakistani CTD agents abducting three Baloch civilians in recent days, as per a watchdog group’s Tuesday alert. This spate exacerbates rampant extrajudicial violence gripping the resource-rich yet rebellion-torn province.
Paank’s report zeroes in on the victims: 40-year-old Sorab teacher Ali Ahmad Reki, vanished from Quetta’s Ganj Chowk on January 24. CTD also took 25-year-old Sorab doctor Shahjain Ahmad from the same Quetta spot that day. On January 23, 22-year-old Sorab student Junaid Ahmad was seized outside Children Hospital on Khwari Road.
These aren’t isolated; they’re symptomatic of a orchestrated clampdown. Synching with Baloch Genocide Day, Baloch Students Organization (Azad) dispatched indictments to human rights networks worldwide, chronicling Pakistan’s ‘colonial’ depredations over decades.
Atrocities abound: traceless detentions, mutilated cadavers from ‘kill-and-dump’ squads, custodial inhumanity, and orchestrated censorship against scholars, reporters, politicians, and defenders. Women and youth endure acute trauma, their protests quashed by threats. Socioeconomic fabrics fray as education and work grind to halt, birthing mass disenfranchisement.
Lacking probes or redress, the cycle perpetuates. BSO implores action: underwrite international scrutiny, voice Balochistan at UN and allies. With abductions unrelenting, the clarion for justice rings louder, urging the world to pierce Pakistan’s veil of denial.