𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
The enforced disappearance of Mehrab Khalid, a filmmaking student at NCA Lahore is a matter of grave concern and highlights the persistent vulnerability of Baloch students within academic spaces. On 29 May 2026,Mehrab Khalid was forcibly disappeared by security forces in Lahore and taken to an undisclosed location. Despite the passage of time no authority has acknowledged his detention or provided any information regarding his whereabouts or legal status.
Mehrab’s disappearance raises serious questions about the security and freedom of Baloch students pursuing higher education across the country. Wherever they pursue their studies Baloch students continue to face surveillance, harassment, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance. The targeting of students extends beyond individual cases. It directly affects the principles of academic freedom, intellectual inquiry and the right to political expression. When students, artists and researchers face reprisals for their ideas or activism, educational institutions risk becoming environments of fear rather than spaces dedicated to learning, creativity and critical thought.
The continued concealment of Mehrab Khalid’s whereabouts represents a serious violation of fundamental rights and further contributes to the climate of impunity surrounding enforced disappearances. His family is entitled to answers and he is entitled to the protections guaranteed under law. We demand the immediate disclosure of Mehrab Khalid’s whereabouts and his unconditional release.
𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐖𝐅
The enforced disappearance of Habiba Peerjan, a Balochi poet, from Karachi on 25 May 2026 is a matter of serious concern. This is the second time she has been subjected to enforced disappearance, having previously been detained in 2022. Reports indicate that following her abduction, security forces raided her home confiscated the mobile phones of family members and damaged household belongings, further intensifying the suffering and uncertainty faced by her family.
Habiba Peerjan’s disappearance comes amid the increasing targeting of Baloch women through enforced disappearances and other coercive measures. The inclusion of women in such practices marks a troubling escalation, demonstrating that no segment of Baloch society remains beyond the reach of repression. These actions constitute grave violations of fundamental human rights and contribute to an environment where fear, insecurity and impunity continue to prevail.
Amid this ordeal, Habiba Peerjan’s daughter Hina Baloch has appealed to the Baloch nation to raise its voice for her mother and demand her safe release. Her appeal is a reminder that enforced disappearances do not affect only those who are taken,they also leave families trapped in a relentless struggle for answers, justice and the return of their loved ones.
We call upon human rights organizations, literary circles, journalists, academics and all people of conscience to raise their voices for Habiba Peerjan and demand her immediate release. The continued targeting of Baloch women through enforced disappearances cannot be normalized and must be met with sustained public attention and international concern.
#ReleaseHabibaPeerjan
#SaveBalochWomen
This year’s WEXFO concluded with a reminder that Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chatha are not forgotten. They are remembered, honoured, and appreciated for their brave work around the world. They must be released immediately and unconditionally.
#ReleaseImaanandHadi
The enforced disappearance of Mehrab Khalid, a Filmmaking student at the NCA Lahore, represents yet another chapter in the systematic targeting of Baloch students and politically conscious youth. On 29 May 2026, Mehrab Khalid was forcibly disappeared from Lahore by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location.While others detained alongside him were released, Mehrab remains missing, with authorities refusing to disclose his whereabouts or legal status.
His disappearance comes amid growing attempts to portray educated, politically aware and critically minded individuals as security threats. This dangerous narrative has increasingly been used to justify the surveillance, harassment, detention and disappearance of students and intellectuals whose only crime is their political consciousness and commitment to speaking about the realities faced by their people.The targeting of Baloch students is not merely an attack on individuals, it is an attack on knowledge, critical thought, academic freedom and the collective political future of an entire nation. Enforced disappearance functions as a mechanism of intimidation designed to silence dissent, suppress political expression and instill fear among those who dare to question injustice. When students are disappeared for their ideas, education itself becomes a battleground and intellectual inquiry is treated as a threat to state power.
The continued disappearance of Mehrab Khalid raises grave concerns about the expanding culture of impunity in cases of enforced disappearances and the increasing securitization of academic and political spaces.We demand the immediate disclosure of Mehrab Khalid’s whereabouts & his unconditional release.
#ReleaseMehrabKhalid
Six years have passed since Faiz Baloch s/o Jan Muhammad was forcibly disappeared by security forces from Malant Tump on 1 March 2020, yet his family remains abandoned in a condition of endless uncertainty. What began as the disappearance of one individual has turned into six years of continuous suffering for an entire family forced to live without answers, without legal recourse and without any acknowledgment of their pain. The absence of Faiz Baloch has transformed everyday life for his loved ones into a permanent state of grief and psychological torment.
For families of the forcibly disappeared in Balochistan, waiting itself becomes a form of punishment. Every knock on the door revives hope, every passing year deepens despair and every unanswered question intensifies the trauma imposed upon them. The family of Faiz Baloch has spent six years searching, protesting and demanding truth while being met with silence. This prolonged uncertainty represents the reality faced by countless Baloch families whose loved ones have disappeared under circumstances linked to state repression and impunity.
The continued disappearance of Faiz Baloch is not only a violation of fundamental human rights but also a painful reminder of the human cost of enforced disappearances in Balochistan. Behind every statistic is a family enduring emotional devastation, social suffering and the unbearable burden of not knowing the fate of their loved one. After six years the family of Faiz Baloch still waits for justice and his safe return.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
28 May is projected as a symbol of nuclear power and military strength, but for the Baloch nation it represents a lasting scar of colonial violence and the militarized occupation of indigenous land. The nuclear detonations in the Raskoh mountains of Chaghi in 1998 turned Balochistan into a permanent sacrifice zone, exposing how Baloch land is reduced to a strategic resource for power projection, geopolitical interests and military expansion rather than the homeland of a people with inherent rights. Under entrenched settler colonial and militarized systems, the land, resources and future of the Baloch have been subjected to sustained control, extraction and dispossession.
The Baloch Nation was never part of the decision that transformed their homeland into a nuclear testing ground. The communities of Chaghi were left without warning, protection or accountability. In the aftermath, entire settlements were displaced, water sources were poisoned, grazing lands destroyed and generations condemned to live with the long term consequences of radiation exposure, chronic disease, environmental collapse and economic ruin. What remains is not only physical destruction but a deep intergenerational suffering that continues to define life in the region.
For the Baloch nation, 28 May is not a day of pride but a reminder of the continued reality that Balochistan remains under a militarized and colonial structure, where land, resources and human lives are subordinated to state interests while political and human rights are systematically ignored. This date is also described as part of a long standing and structural process of violence against the Baloch people, often referred to as a pre planned Baloch genocide.
#NukeAftermathInBalochistan
The enforced disappearance of Baloch women highlights the dangerous normalization of state repression in Balochistan,a practice that cannot and must not be accepted under any circumstances.
Habiba Peerjan,a resident of Tump Kech currently living in Karachi, has been forcibly disappeared for the second time after security forces raided her house and unlawfully detained her before taking her to an undisclosed location. She was previously abducted on 22 May 2022 and released days later. Today her name is included in the growing list of Baloch women who have been subjected to enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, custodial abuse and psychological torture by the Pakistani state including Mahjaben, Nasrena and Khadija whose whereabouts and conditions remain deeply concerning.
The targeting of Baloch women represents not only a grave violation of fundamental human rights but also an escalation of collective punishment, political persecution and the systematic criminalization of dissent in Balochistan. Enforced disappearance violates Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR, which states that “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile,” as well as Articles 3 and 5 concerning the rights to liberty, security, dignity and freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
If the state believes that through the Fourth Schedule and other coercive legal instruments it can legitimize unlawful actions suppress political expression and silence dissenting voices, then the responsibility for these ongoing abuses lies entirely with the state itself. Such actions demonstrate institutionalized impunity, structural violence and systematic repression in Balochistan.We will continue to raise our voices on every national and international platform against enforced disappearances, state violence and the ongoing persecution of the Baloch people. Silence in the face of injustice only emboldens oppression and we refuse to normalize the abduction and targeting of Baloch women.
#SaveBalochWomen
It has been one year since the enforced disappearance of Ghani Baloch, an MPhil scholar and Central Committee member of NDP who was forcibly disappeared by security forces from Khuzdar on 25 May 2025. Despite the passage of an entire year his family continues to live in anguish & uncertainty without any information regarding his whereabouts. The continued silence surrounding his disappearance raises serious concerns regarding human rights, justice and the rule of law. Enforced disappearances are a grave violation of human dignity and inflict deep and lasting trauma on families who are left waiting without answers.
We strongly demand the immediate and safe release of Ghani Baloch and call for an end to the ongoing practice of enforced disappearances.
#ReleaseGhaniBaloch
مرکزی رہنما غنی بلوچ کی جبری گمشدگی کو ایک سال مکمل جنہیں تاحال منظر عام پر نہیں لایا گیا
سیاسی آوازوں کو دبانے، اختلافِ رائے کو جرم بنانے اور آئینی جدوجہد کرنے والوں کو جبری طور پر گمشدہ کرنے کے نتائج نہایت سنگین ہو سکتے ہیں
نیشنل ڈیموکریٹک پارٹی
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
Zubaida Baloch and her daughter in law Zarnaz were forcibly abducted by security forces on 29 April 2026 from Tejaban Kech.Since then, no information has been made public about their whereabouts or legal status, leaving their family in prolonged anguish and unanswered questions.
This incident follows the killing of Daulat, husband of Zarnaz, on 18 February 2026 in an incident involving state backed death squads.The repeated targeting of this family highlights a continuing reality in which abduction of Baloch women is being normalized within the prevailing security framework raising serious concerns of collective punishment directed at civilian families in Balochistan. Urgent disclosure of their whereabouts and accountability for those responsible is demanded.
The growing institutional acceptance of enforced disappearances of Baloch women signals a deterioration in rule of law standards and weakening of civilian protection mechanisms. It further indicates the use of coercive state practices amounting to family based reprisals, where entire households are subjected to intimidation and deprivation of liberty, deepening political repression and eroding fundamental rights guarantees.
#SaveBalochWomen
The continued targeting and intimidation of Baloch political dissent reflects a systematic attempt to suppress peaceful political expression and restrict democratic space in Balochistan. These practices constitute a grave infringement of fundamental political and human rights, undermining freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
Serious concerns have also been raised regarding escalating threats directed at @Nasrullah_Baloc , Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons along with threats to the organization’s executive body. VBMP has been leading one of the longest running non violent protest movements in Balochistan against enforced disappearances and human rights violations. There are also worrying attempts and pressure to forcibly shut down the VBMP protest camp. Such actions amount to a direct assault on political freedoms and stand in clear contradiction to the principles of rule of law, due process and democratic accountability.
وائس فار بلوچ مسنگ پرسنز کے احتجاجی کیمپ کو بند کرنے اور جبری گمشدگیوں کے خلاف جاری پرامن جدوجہد سے دستبردار ہونے کے لیے دھمکیاں دی جا رہی ہیں۔
اس طرح کے ہتھکنڈے انسانی حقوق کی آواز کو دبانے کی کوشش ہیں، مگر جبری گمشدگیوں کے خلاف جدوجہد جاری رہے گی۔
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
ایک سال سے زیادہ گزر چکا ہے۔ تین عیدیں بیت گئیں مگر بلوچ یکجہتی کمیٹی کی قیادت جن میں میری بہن ڈاکٹر ماہ رنگ بلوچ بھی شامل ہیں، آج بھی بے بنیاد اور جھوٹے الزامات کے تحت جیل میں قید ہیں۔
عید خوشیوں، اپنوں کے ساتھ وقت گزارنے، محبت بانٹنے اور خاندان کے ساتھ جڑنے کا دن ہوتی ہے مگر بلوچستان میں نہ جانے کتنے گھر ایسے ہیں جہاں عید خوشی نہیں بلکہ ایک زخم بن کر آتی ہے۔ کتنی مائیں، بہنیں اور بچے اپنے پیاروں کی راہ تکتے رہتے ہیں، اُن لوگوں کی جنہیں جبری گمشدگی کا شکار بنا دیا گیا۔
ماہ رنگ بلوچ، بیبو، گلزادی، سبغت اللہ اور بیبرگ کے خاندان آج بھی اپنے پیاروں کی جدائی اور ظلم کا بوجھ اٹھا رہے ہیں۔ ان لوگوں کو صرف اس لیے جیلوں میں ڈالا گیا کہ انہوں نے سچ بولنے کی ہمت کی، اپنے لوگوں کے حق کی بات کی، اور ظلم کے سامنے جھکنے سے انکار کیا۔
بچپن سے ہی، خاص طور پر اُس وقت سے جب ہمارے والد کو پہلے جبری طور پر لاپتہ کیا گیا اور پھر شہید کر دیا گیا، عید ہمارے لیے کبھی خوشی کا دن نہیں رہی۔ ہر عید ہمیں اُس درد، اُس خالی پن اور اُس ظلم کی یاد دلاتی رہی مگر میری بڑی بہن ماہ رنگ بلوچ نے ہمیشہ کوشش کی کہ ہم خود کو تنہا محسوس نہ کریں۔ وہ ہمارے لیے صرف ایک بہن نہیں تھی؛ وہ ماں بھی بنی، باپ بھی، اور ایک سایہ بھی۔ اُس نے ہمیں وہ محبت، حوصلہ اور سہارا دیا جو ہر بچے کا حق ہوتا ہے۔
مگر اُس کی گرفتاری کے بعد ایسا لگتا ہے جیسے ہمیں دوبارہ انہی اندھیروں میں دھکیل دیا گیا ہو۔ لیکن یہ اندھیرے ہمیں توڑ نہیں سکتے۔ یہ ظلم ہمیں خاموش نہیں کر سکتا۔ یہ دن صرف ہمیں یاد دلاتے ہیں کہ بلوچستان کے لوگوں کے ساتھ کتنی ناانصافیاں، کتنی محرومیاں اور کتنا ظلم کیا گیا ہے۔
ہمارے لیے عید اب صرف خوشی کا دن نہیں رہی بلکہ مزاحمت کی علامت بن چکی ہے۔ یہ ہمیں ہر بار یاد دلاتی ہے کہ ہمارے پیارے آج بھی ہم سے چھینے گئے ہیں، کہ ظلم آج بھی جاری ہے۔ مگر ہر گزرتی عید کے ساتھ ہمارا حوصلہ اور مضبوط ہو رہا ہے۔ ہم اپنے لوگوں کے لیے، انصاف کے لیے، اپنے لاپتہ پیاروں کی واپسی کے لیے، اور بے گناہ قیدیوں کی رہائی کے لیے آواز اٹھاتے رہیں گے۔
اس وقت ماہ رنگ بلوچ سمیت بی وائی سی کی قیادت کا مقدمہ سپریم کورٹ میں زیرِ سماعت ہے، مگر افسوس کہ سپریم کورٹ اب تک سماعت کی تاریخ دینے میں تاخیر کر رہی ہے مگر اس کے باوجود آج بھی ہماری آخری امید سپریم کورٹ سے وابستہ ہے۔
#ReleaseBYCLeaders
#ReleaseMahrangBaloch
Today its 118 days of illegal incarceration for @ImaanZHazir & @AdvHadiali thru sham trial lacking in due process & law. No justice in sight. Always been abt vengeance, never abt law & justice or even due process. On Friday it will be 4 months of illegal incarceration. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi