In the shadowed valleys of Balochistan, the Pakistani army’s reign of terror continues unabated. Two more innocent lives – Nasram Baloch and student Aweis Baloch – have been snuffed out in cold blood, as reported by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee on Thursday. These killings come against a backdrop of rampant enforced disappearances that have turned the province into a graveyard of the disappeared.
Nasram’s journey of suffering began in October 2023 when security forces vanished him from Kech district’s Buleida area. Released after family protests in June 2024, he bore the scars of torture, including hepatitis from brutal interrogations. Freedom was fleeting; on August 8, raiders beat his family and abducted him anew. His tortured remains surfaced days ago by the Maksheen River, a grim testament to military savagery.
Just a day after Aweis’s abduction from Panjgur on February 23, his body appeared at the local civil hospital – another victim of the ‘kill and dump’ strategy. BYC decries this as institutionalized murder by the very guardians of law. ‘Lawbreakers masquerading as protectors,’ they charged.
Calling for global intervention, BYC has appealed to world bodies like the UN and Amnesty to probe these heinous acts. Balochistan’s plight demands urgent attention; silence only emboldens the oppressors. The international community must act to halt this humanitarian crisis before more blood stains the land.