QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: Hair-un- Nisa Wahid, a Baloch woman who was disappeared from Hub, Balochistan six months ago, was presented before the media at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Quetta on Monday, with Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti claiming she had been intercepted while on her way to carry out a suicide attack in Islamabad.
Addressing a press conference alongside other officials, CM Bugti said that intelligence agencies had foiled the alleged plot after learning that the woman was travelling from Turbat to Islamabad by bus. He claimed she had been trained at a militant camp and was blackmailed into carrying out the attack under threats that her father would be killed if she refused. Bugti announced that the woman would be handed over to her father and asked the family to keep a close watch on her.
Notably, journalists were requested not to ask the woman any questions during the press conference. CM Bugti himself said she was not in a condition to respond and that he would answer all questions on her behalf. Her father was also present at the event.
However, local sources and community circles have raised serious questions about the government’s account. According to these sources, Hair-un- Nisa Wahid was among two women forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces during a raid on a house in Ganji Ghot Daro Hotel area of Hub Chowki in the early hours of December 20, 2025, at approximately 3 a.m. Her companion, Hani Dilwash, who was seven months pregnant at the time of her disappearance, has still not been accounted for and her whereabouts remain unknown.
This is not the first time a forcibly disappeared Baloch woman has been presented before the media as a suspected militant. In a similar case, Farzana Zahri, who was forcibly disappeared from Khuzdar, was later presented as a suicide bomber and a press conference was held in her presence by the Balochistan government.
In another case, Raheema Bibi, forcibly disappeared from Dalbandin along with her brother, was produced six months later and presented as a facilitator for a suicide bomber. Most notably, Mahel Baloch, who was presented by the Balochistan government as a suicide bomber, was later acquitted and released by a court after being declared innocent.
Critics and local observers allege that such press conferences have been used repeatedly by intelligence agencies and civil authorities as a propaganda tool against Baloch political organisations, a pattern they say has now become disturbingly familiar.
