Hub: Another Baloch woman has reportedly been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces from the industrial city of Hub in Balochistan.
According to details, Fatima, wife of Nawroz Islam and a resident of Panjgur, was taken into custody by Pakistani forces from her home in Akram Colony and shifted to an unknown location.
It is noteworthy that her husband, Nawroz Islam, has previously been subjected to enforced disappearance on three times by Pakistani forces, due to which the family has continued to face state repression and severe psychological distress.
It may be recalled that on 22 November and in December 2025, women named Nasreen Baloch daughter of Dilawar and Hajra, residents of Awaran, were also forcibly disappeared.
Mahjabeen Baloch, a 24-year-old student at the University of Balochistan, was studying Library Science. At around 3:00 a.m. on 29 May 2025, police, Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel, and other security officials raided the nursing hostel of the Civil Hospital and arrested her without any legal warrant, transferring her to an unknown location.
On 20 December, in the industrial town of Hub Chowki, from the Daroo Hotel area of Jangi Goth, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police detained Heer al-Nisa, daughter of Abdul Wahid Baloch, resident of Kirki Tajaban, Turbat, without any legal warrant or written order from her house, after which she has remained forcibly disappeared.
On December 8, 2025, the Pakistani security forces illegally raided Zahoor Colony in Dalbandin city, where they abducted a woman, Rahima Rahim, along with her brother, Zubair Rahim. From that day on, their whereabouts remain unknown.
On December 1, 2025, Farzana Zehri was en route home from a hospital in Khuzdar when she was forcibly disappeared by personnel of the security forces. Since then, she has remained in an unknown location, hidden even from her family.
In an illegal raid on a home in Hub Chowki on December 20, 2025, personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department and intelligence agencies forcibly detained an eight-months pregnant woman, Hani Baloch. Since then, she has been kept in a secret location.
On the other hand, according to a report published by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), at least 12 Baloch women and girls were forcibly disappeared during 2025 across different districts of Balochistan.
According to BYC, these incidents are not individual or coincidental in nature but indicate an organised pattern of state repression in which enforced disappearances are being used as a form of collective punishment.
