Balochistan, April 28 (ANI): The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) has sent an open letter to United Nations bodies and international human rights organisations, seeking urgent intervention over what it says are escalating human rights violations in Balochistan, including alleged enforced disappearances of Baloch women.
Addressed to the UN Human Rights Council, OHCHR, the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, CEDAW, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders, the letter urges immediate global attention to a growing crisis. BWF alleges that Baloch women are being systematically targeted as part of a broader pattern of repression, calling the incidents “state atrocities.”
The forum highlighted three cases: Khadija Baloch, a nursing student at Bolan Medical College in Quetta, who BWF says was taken from her hostel room by state-affiliated operatives; Haseena Noor Bakhsh, a housewife from Naval, Karachi, who was allegedly disappeared from her home in front of her children despite having no known political links; and Gul Banuk Taj, a housewife from Singabad Tejaban, Kech, who BWF reports was abducted and whose husband’s appeals to authorities have yielded no resolution.
BWF says families have received no information on the women’s whereabouts and that no formal charges have been filed. The forum contends these are not isolated incidents but part of a strategy to silence Baloch women—students, mothers and homemakers—based on identity and social role, in violation of Pakistan’s international human rights obligations.
BWF calls on international bodies to investigate, ensure accountability and take immediate steps to address alleged enforced disappearances and systemic discrimination, urging global intervention to protect fundamental rights and secure justice for affected families. (ANI)
