QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: The Baloch Yakjehti Committee said in a statement that the arrest of Mujahid and Fareed is a failed attempt to cover up the crime of enforced disappearance.
According to BYC, Fareed, son of Ejaz, a 17-year-old student and resident of Sang Abad Karki, Kech, was forcibly disappeared on December 19, 2025, after being summoned to the Tajaban FC Camp at around 2 p.m. and taken into custody. Similarly, Mujahid Dalwash, son of Dalwash, an 18-year-old student and resident of Karki Tajaban, Kech, was subjected to enforced disappearance after being taken into custody by CTD and MI personnel at around 1 a.m. on the night of December 23, 2025. Both young men remained missing in state custody for several months, while their families continued knocking on the doors of justice amid ongoing helplessness, mental anguish, and uncertainty.
Now, on July 7, the CTD has claimed to have arrested these same two young men during an intelligence-based operation in Karachi, alleging that they are affiliated with the BLA. This claim is not only difficult to believe but also contradicts the state institutions’ own narrative, since the Baloch Yakjehti Committee had already brought forward the details and evidence of these two young men’s enforced disappearance back in December 2025. If these young men had been in the custody of state institutions for several months, then presenting them today as having been arrested in a fresh operation is, in effect, a failed attempt to cover up the crime of enforced disappearance.
This is not merely a matter concerning two young men; it is part of Pakistan’s ongoing policy of Baloch genocide in Balochistan, BYC said. First, young men are unlawfully abducted, held in secret detention for months, denied the protection of the constitution, the law, and the courts, while their families are left in mental anguish and then, months later, the same individuals are presented as having been arrested in some intelligence operation, encounter, or terrorism case in an attempt to give the entire enforced disappearance the appearance of a legal action.
This pattern of behaviour, the statement said, is clear evidence that in Balochistan, the law is being used not to deliver justice but as a weapon to legally justify state repression. Enforced disappearances, which have continued in Balochistan for the past two decades, are a regular part of state policy. On one hand, the state denies the existence of this crime, while on the other, it sets up commissions for missing persons and now, in the next phase of this same policy, it is attempting to legitimize its unlawful actions by labeling previously forcibly disappeared persons as terrorists.
BYC appeals to the United Nations to hold the Pakistani state accountable on the serious issue of enforced disappearances and Baloch genocide.
