Pank reveals deepening human rights crisis in Balochistan
Balochistan: In October 2025, a major human rights organization called Paank released its report. The report revealed shocking findings. Paank documents enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan.
According to The Balochistan Post, the report paints a horrifying picture of “systematic state-sponsored violence.” It accuses Pakistani security institutions and their allied militias of carrying out widespread kidnappings, torture, and killings across the province.
According to The Balochistan Post, Paank recorded 87 cases of enforced disappearances in October alone, most of which occurred in Kech, Panjgur, Khuzdar, and Dera Bugti districts. Victims were reportedly abducted from their homes, streets, and markets during military operations.
Eighteen of those later released described horrific experiences of beatings, electric shocks, and prolonged solitary confinement, which Paank described as evidence of a “structured torture system” within the secret detention center.
The report also confirmed 20 extrajudicial killings. Many of the victims had previously been reported missing, reflecting what rights activists call a disturbing “kill-and-dump” policy. One of them was Jahanzaib Baloch, who was kidnapped from Pasni in late September and whose mutilated body was found in Lasbela on October 1.
Similarly, three drivers, Qudus, Nek Sal, and Nazar Baloch, were forcibly disappeared on September 30 and their bodies were later found near the Surab Dam. One of the most disturbing cases is that of Nazia Shafi, a young woman who was kidnapped along with her family by Frontier Corps personnel and local accomplices in Panjgur.
She was found badly injured the next morning and died soon after. Pank called her death “a symbol of the government’s terror against Baloch women,” as reported by The Balochistan Post.
The report also mentions two deadly airstrikes by the Pakistani military: one in Mula Chari in Zehri, which killed six civilians, including children, and another in the Chiltan Mountains of Quetta, which injured nine unarmed young men.
Pank’s findings highlight the deteriorating state of human rights and call on organizations worldwide to investigate what activists describe as an atmosphere of fear, impunity, and systematic oppression within Pakistan’s security system, as reported by The Balochistan Post.
