By Admin 
Baloch National Movement (BNM) organization has appealed to the international community to take immediate action against the widespread human rights violations taking place in Balochistan. The organization alleges that the government of Pakistan and its security apparatus are using the law to suppress dissent, target civilians and suppress the voice of the entire region.
Addressing the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, BNM representatives said that cases of enforced disappearances, fake encounters or killings without judicial process and restrictions on freedom of expression are continuously increasing in Balochistan.
According to him, all this is part of a planned effort to suppress the voice of the Baloch people. BNM member Mahra Baloch said that common people in Balochistan are being given collective punishment just because they live there and exist with their identity. An entire population in Balochistan is being punished just for its existence. In the name of anti-terrorism action against them, Pakistan has weaponised the law.
Those who disagree are being criminalized, people’s lives are being destroyed and the voice of an entire community is being suppressed. Mahra Baloch alleged that Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law is being misused to mark Baloch students, social activists and human rights defenders as banned or suspicious persons. According to them, this takes away their freedom. The right to travel is affected and they are forced to live in constant danger.
He claimed that in the year 2025 itself, BNM’s human rights department ‘PANK’ registered 1,355 cases of enforced disappearances and 225 extrajudicial killings in Balochistan. Mahara said that these are not just figures, but behind them are the people who were picked up from their homes, the students who were abducted from the campus and the bodies which were returned to scare others.
He also raised the issue of action being taken against the leadership of Baloch Yakjahti Committee (BVC). Mahrang Baloch, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was arbitrarily arrested, denied medical treatment and targeted simply for raising her voice peacefully, Mahara said. He also said that internet shutdown, mass surveillance and mass punishment have become a common practice there, so that the world cannot know the real situation of Balochistan.
Mahra Baloch called on the international community to put pressure on Pakistan to immediately stop these human rights violations, release arbitrarily detained Baloch activists, and conduct an independent and transparent investigation into the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
Earlier in the same session on Wednesday (March 18, 2026), PANK’s media coordinator Jamal Baloch had also said that atrocities have intensified amid projects related to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). He said, “I have come to present before this Council the systematic human rights violations being carried out by Pakistan in Balochistan, which are being strengthened by China’s strategic and economic involvement.
Enforced disappearances are working like a state policy in Balochistan. Pakistan’s army acts as if it is above the law and abducts students, teachers, journalists and political activists.
Jamal Baloch alleged that peaceful protest is being presented as terrorism. She said that women-led civil rights movements are being suppressed and the internet is being shut down in many districts of Balochistan, so that the military operations and the voices of the victims cannot reach the world. He also claimed that repression has increased along with CPEC-related projects, as the lives of civilians are being militarized to protect these projects and control resources.
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