Fresh cases of enforced disappearance have been reported from Quetta, Mastung, Gwadar and Karachi, as relatives of the missing once again appealed for justice and called on Pakistani authorities to stop what they described as systematic human-rights violations, The Balochistan Post reported.
According to the report, at least three young men, including a university student, were abducted in separate incidents in Quetta and Mastung. On December 1, witnesses say Syed Ahmed Shah, a student in the University of Balochistan’s Department of Education, was seized by men believed to be linked to intelligence agencies. Eyewitnesses described armed men arriving in a vehicle with tinted windows and dragging him away from outside the university’s main gate.
In Mastung’s Dasht, Jalab Gandan area, two residents — Nadeem Kurd and Fareed Kurd — were allegedly taken by security forces and remain missing. On December 7, another abduction was reported in Gwadar district, where Farooq Ibrahim, son of Haji Ibrahim Kalmati, was taken from his home in Jiwani’s Panwan area. His family alleged the raid involved members of a local “death squad,” and recalled that Farooq’s elder brother, car racer Tariq Kalmati, was abducted in 2015 and later found dead in Gwadar. The same night, Karachi saw a similar detention when Ali Nawaz Kalmati of Panwan was reportedly picked up by security personnel and disappeared, the report said.
At a Quetta Press Club press conference, the family of another missing student, Shahzad Munir, condemned what they called a warrantless midnight abduction by state forces. They cited Articles 9 and 10-A of Pakistan’s Constitution, saying secret detention is illegal and unconstitutional, and urged authorities to uphold the rule of law, end secret detentions and restore public trust in justice and governance.
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