What happened to the female doctor in Quetta yesterday goes against our traditions, our values, and everything Balochistan stands for. Women hold the highest place of respect in our society, and there can be no tolerance for those who try to bring down respected and successful women with backward and patriarchal thinking.Balochistan is a land where women are honoured, valued, and often lead from the front. Any attack on a woman’s dignity, reputation, or achievements is an attack on our collective values. We stand with every woman facing injustice and strongly condemn those who believe they can silence, shame, or target women. There must be zero tolerance for such behaviour. Respect for women is not a choice it is a principle that must be upheld at all times. We stand united with the victims family and demand justice.
Request to the International Community: Stand in Solidarity with Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch
We, the undersigned, urgently appeal to the international community—governments, human rights organizations, civil society, journalists, academics, and all concerned citizens—to stand in solidarity with Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch, a respected physician, social worker, and advocate for the marginalized in Balochistan, who has been forcibly disappeared since June 28, 2009.
For more than sixteen years, his family has endured silence, uncertainty and anguish, receiving violence on top of silence. His case is emblematic of the wider crisis of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been abducted without due process. Many have never been seen again. These disappearances violate not only Pakistan’s own laws but also international treaties, including the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
Dr. Deen Muhammad’s family has exhausted every legal avenue available to them. They filed petitions in the High Courts, took the case to the Supreme Court, and appeared before the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIED). They met ministers, judges, and senior officials. Each time, promises were made, files were opened, but nothing changed. The COIED, which Pakistan’s government presents as a remedy, has in reality become a mechanism to deflect accountability rather than deliver justice. With no prosecutorial power or ability to enforce its recommendations, it provides only the illusion of recourse.
When the courts and commissions failed them, Dr. Deen Muhammad’s family turned to peaceful protest and public advocacy. His daughters, Sammi and Mehlab, have held press conferences, staged sit-ins, joined long marches, and led a grassroots campaign to demand his return. They have faced threats, harassment, and even imprisonment simply for demanding the truth about their father.
Dr. Deen Muhammad was not a criminal. He was a healer and a human rights defender who dedicated his life to serving others. His disappearance is a grave injustice, not only to his family, but to all who believe in dignity, justice, and the right to be heard.
We call on the international community to:
•Demand an independent and transparent investigation into the enforced disappearance of Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch
•Press the Government of Pakistan to immediately disclose his whereabouts or release him if he is in custody
•Support the families of the disappeared in their pursuit of truth, justice, and accountability
•Amplify the voices of human rights defenders in Balochistan who are being silenced by repression and violence
Your solidarity is needed now. Silence enables impunity. By speaking out, you help restore hope to those who have suffered too long in isolation.
Justice for Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch is justice for all.
#ReleaseDrDeenMohammad
Dr. Mahrang Baloch and BYC Leadership Remain Detained Despite Expiry of Legal Detention Period
Dr. Mahrang Baloch, head of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and internationally recognized human rights defender, and activist Beebow Baloch were arrested on March 22 and detained under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (3MPO) at Hudda Jail, Quetta. Their three-month detention period legally concluded on June 22; however, both remain in custody without any legal justification.
Other BYC members and activists, including Bibagar Baloch, Sabghatullah Shah Ji, Gulzadi Baloch, Mama Ghaffar Baloch, and Imran Baloch, also remain in custody without judicial orders or due process.
No review board has been convened, no hearings have been conducted, and no official explanation has been provided. This constitutes a clear violation of Article 10(4) of Pakistan’s Constitution, which requires judicial oversight and a personal hearing for any preventive detention exceeding 90 days.
Prison authorities have issued vague and unsubstantiated claims regarding possible extensions, yet no legal documentation has been shared to support these assertions. This lack of transparency highlights the unlawful and arbitrary nature of their continued detention.
We call on international human rights organizations and concerned individuals to urgently intervene in this escalating constitutional and humanitarian crisis. Immediate pressure must be placed on Pakistani authorities to secure the unconditional release of Dr. Mahrang Baloch and all other unlawfully detained human rights defenders.
#ReleaseBycLeaders
#FreeMahrangBaloch
مردان کاٹلنگ شموزو ڈرون حملے میں بچوں سمیت 9 بیگناہ سویلینز کی شہادت انتہائی افسوسناک ہے اس ظالمانہ فعل کی پر زور مذمت کرتا ہوں، چیئرمین عمران احمد خان نیازی اور تحریکِ انصاف نے ہمیشہ ڈرون حملوں کی مخالفت کی ہے چاہے وہ بیرونی ہوں یا اپنی ہی سیکیورٹی فورسز بیگناہ سویلینز پر کرے۔