QUETTA: A human rights organisation on Tuesday revealed that 98 cases of enforced disappearances were documented across Pakistan in the month of August.
In its August 2025 report, Paank, Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, mentioned that the cases were reported across 13 districts, including Karachi and Multan, with most of them being reported in Quetta (21), Kech (19) and Dera Bugti (14).
In a post shared on X, Paank mentioned that 32 victims were released, "many bearing signs of torture."
Balochistan has been reeling under the endless atrocities at the hands of Pakistani authorities, who facilitate death squads in the region to carry out enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and illegal detentions of Baloch people.
On Monday, Paank reported that Pakistani security forces forcibly took Hilal Murad, a resident of the Baloch ward area in Gwadar city, from his home.
"On September 20, 2025, Hilal Murad, son of Murad, a resident of the Baloch ward area in Gwadar city, was forcibly taken from his home by Pakistani security forces, " Paank posted on X.
Separately, the human rights body also stated that Akhtaj Shoukat, a resident of Kech district's Hoshap area, was forcibly taken from his home by Pakistani security forces.
Meanwhile, Pakistani politician Maulana Fazl-Ur-Rehman alleged recently that the country's authorities are involved in kidnapping and enforced disappearances across Balochistan.
His remarks came amid an escalating wave of enforced disappearances in the province, with families continuously staging protests demanding the return of their missing kin.