At least four Baloch civilians were forcibly disappeared by the Pakistani forces in Balochistan amid an escalating wave of enforced disappearances across the province. Paak, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, stated yesterday. The rights body mentioned that on September 27, Pakistani security forces abducted two residents of Gilli Buleda in Kech district. Murad Jan, a daily-wage labourer, was forcibly disappeared while on his way to his agricultural field, while Abdul Hakeem was abducted from his home in the same area.
Two days later, on September 29, Sher Ali, a shopkeeper from Gardank, Tehsil Buleda in Kech, was also forcibly disappeared by the Pakistan Army. Additionally, yesterday, Nizar Arz Muhammad, a driver engaged in cross-border trade and resident of Paroom in Panjgur district, was forcibly disappeared from Buleda.
On Monday, Pakistan-backed death squad members opened fire in the Jhain area in Panjgur, injuring two local residents, says the rights body. Recently, the Human Rights Council of Balochistan documented widespread human rights violations across Balochistan, including 123 enforced disappearances and 26 killings, carried out by Pakistan-backed death squads and security forces in the month of August.
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