Missing Persons of Balochistan , Abdul Lateef Baloch . بلوچستان میں جبری گمشد گیاں

Описание: Missing Persons of Balochistan , Abdul Lateef Baloch . بلوچستان میں جبری گمشد گیاں
Pakistan has many problems of Human Rights violation. Enforced disappearance in one of the most important problem. This is a part one of the video of Enforced disappearance in Pakistan.
In this video we will discuss the killing and enforced disappearance of Latif Baloch.

• The following is based on a communication written by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and other UN experts to the Government of Pakistan on 13 August 2025. The communication remained confidential for 60 days before being made public, giving the Government time to reply. Regrettably, the Government did not reply within this time frame. If a reply is received it will be posted on the UN Special Procedures communications database.
• extra-judicial killings of journalist and human rights defender Abdul Latif Baloch on 24 May 2025 and of his son, Saif Baloch, found dead on 26 March 2025, in Awaran district, Balochistan province in Pakistan, and the targeting of members of Abdul Latif Baloch’ extended family.
• Mr. Abdul Latif Baloch worked for many years as a journalist at The Daily Intekhab, an Urdu-language newspaper based in Balochistan, and regularly wrote about human rights violations occurring in the region. This included reporting on alleged enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and restrictions on freedom of movement due to military operations.
• On 24 May 2025 Mr. Abdul Latif Baloch was shot dead in his home in Mashkay town, Awaran district in Balochistan after four unidentified masked and armed men broke into his house at around 4 a.m. He was struck by four bullets. His wife and two daughters were also present at the time of his murder. They were not physically harmed.
• Prior to his murder, Mr. Abdul Latif Baloch had been allegedly targeted by the Pakistani security agencies a number of times.
• In 2016 he was abducted and reportedly tortured by the Pakistani army and Frontier Corps, which had invited him to a military camp in Mashkay, on the pretense of having a story for him to report. He was subsequently detained and subjected to an enforced disappearance. He was released, with injuries, over a year later.
• He was abducted for a second time by the security forces from Mahwar, Mashkay on 9 March 2018 and released after being held for four days.
• In the years since, Mr. Baloch regularly received telephone calls and summonses from the military, questioning him on his activities and reporting.
• Numerous members of Mr. Baloch’s family have been allegedly detained or killed by the security forces over the past 15 years. These have included Mr. Baloch’s brother, Rashid Ali Baloch, and Mr. Baloch’s son, Saif Baloch.
• In August 2011, Mr. Rashid Ali Baloch, a political activist affiliated with the Baloch National Movement, was detained as he travelled to Karachi.
• His body was discovered in Khuzdar district in October 2011 and allegedly showed signs
• of torture. He had been shot in the head and chest.
• Earlier, Latif Baloch’s youngest brother, Khalid Naveed, was abducted on March 13, 2018, from Bela City and released on January 19, 2019, after months of enforced disappearance.
• On 28 February 2025, Mr. Saif Baloch, was reportedly detained during a raid on the family home in Mashkay, allegedly carried out by the Pakistani security forces.
• He was reportedly taken to Mashkay Nali Army Camp, where associates went to seek his release.
• They were allegedly told by an officer at the camp that Saif Baloch was in their custody but would be released. Saif Baloch was subsequently found dead on 26 March 2025.
• A key theme that emerged was the shift in the pattern of enforced disappearances from prolonged incommunicado detention to allegations of an increasingly common ‘kill-and-dump’ approach. Former chief minister and National Party leader Dr Abdul Malik Baloch described a context in which individuals—often picked up without warrant or due process—were held for months before being extra judicially executed.
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• We (Working group on Enforced disappearance)note with great concern that the killings, enforced disappearances, arrests and detentions described above appear to have been carried out by security forces and taken place in direct retribution for the victims’ exercise of the right to freedom of expression and their human rights defence work.
• This obligationis enshrined, inter alia, in article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,articles 7 and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),and articles 1, 2 and 16 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman orDegrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), which Pakistan ratified on 23 June 2010.
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