Fresh enforced-disappearance cases have been reported across Balochistan and Sindh, with relatives renewing calls for accountability and an end to alleged rights violations, The Balochistan Post says. Multiple incidents from Quetta, Mastung, Gwadar and Karachi were described in the report, involving students and other young men who remain unaccounted for. On December 1, witnesses say Syed Ahmed Shah, a student in the University of Balochistan’s Department of Education, was seized by armed men thought to be linked to intelligence agencies. Eyewitnesses reported 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 have not been seen since. On December 7, family members in Gwadar district said Farooq Ibrahim, son of Haji Ibrahim Kalmati, was taken from his home in Jiwani’s Panwan area during a raid the family says involved members of a local ‘death squad.’ They recalled that Farooq’s elder brother, car racer Tariq Kalmati, was abducted in 2015 and later found dead in Gwadar. That same night, Karachi residents reported a similar detention when Ali Nawaz Kalmati of Panwan was reportedly picked up by security personnel and disappeared. At a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, the family of another missing student, Shahzad Munir, condemned what they described as a warrantless, midnight abduction by state forces. They cited Articles 9 and 10-A of Pakistan’s Constitution, arguing that secret detention violates constitutional protections and is unlawful. Families urged authorities to end secret detentions, investigate these cases transparently, and restore public confidence in the rule of law and justice institutions. The incidents were reported by The Balochistan Post and are published here as received from the syndicated feed.
