PASNI, BALOCHISTAN: A pickup van carrying eight passengers, including three women, two children and an infant, has gone missing for two days on the route between Pasni and Shadi Kor in coastal Balochistan, sources said.
According to local sources, the passengers were returning to their village after receiving medical treatment at Pak Oman Hospital when the vehicle disappeared somewhere between Pasni and Shadi Kor. The van has not been traced since.
The eight passengers include three women, two children one of whom is an infant and three men, sources confirmed.
Two days have passed since the incident, yet neither the passengers nor the vehicle have been located, raising serious concerns among the families of those on board.
Affected families have urgently appealed to the district administration and law enforcement agencies to launch an immediate search operation and recover their loved ones safe and sound.
The cause of this specific disappearance remains unknown at this time and authorities have not yet issued any official statement regarding the incident.
This incident comes against the backdrop of a long-standing and deeply troubling pattern of enforced disappearances reported across Balochistan.
Families of victims have consistently alleged that their loved ones were taken away by Pakistani security forces, including FC personnel andCTD officials. In several documented cases, family members claim to have witnessed the detentions firsthand and in some instances even recorded video footage of their loved ones being taken away by personnel in uniform.
Pakistani forces have repeatedly denied these allegations, maintaining that they act within the bounds of law. However, human rights organizations, civil society groups and public advocacy movements have continued to raise serious concerns over the issue, demanding transparency and accountability.
In a number of deeply troubling cases, individuals who had been reported as missing were later found killed in what authorities described as armed encounters. However, families and human rights groups have frequently challenged these accounts, alleging that many such incidents were staged encounters carried out by CTD and other security forces.
