KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has confirmed that at least 10 civilians, most of them children, were killed in airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Kunar and Helmand provinces. The Taliban government says the strikes were carried out by Pakistan, which Pakistan says it targeted militant hideouts. In a […]
HR Organizations
Insights, News, and Declarations from Human Rights Organizations in Balochistan.
QUETTA, BALOCHSITAN: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has said it received complaints from family members that Hassan Rafiq, Ehsan Hassan and Nadil Baloch all of whom had previously been forcibly disappeared were found dead, with their bodies recovered from the Kuldan, Dannuk area of Gwadar. The families said that […]
KARACHI: A raid on the Karachi home of Sarang Hyder, known as Sarang Sindhi, coordinator of the Europe Chapter of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, has triggered allegations that his family was threatened over his human rights activism abroad, including a protest he led in London last month. The […]
QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: Paank, the human rights wing of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), has said that at least 556 people were forcibly disappeared and 227 others were subjected to extrajudicial or custodial killings across Balochistan between January and June 2026. In a statement, the organization said a further 171 individuals […]
LONDON: Sarang Hyder (Sarang Sindhi), Coordinator of the Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh (VMPS) Europe Chapter, has appealed to Sindhi, Baloch, Pashtoon, Seraiki, Kashmiri and Gilgiti-Baltistani human rights activists to join a protest outside the British Prime Minister’s residence in London on Sunday, 30 August 2026. The demonstration, organized […]
International Rights Groups Petition UN Over “Illegal” Detention of Dr. Mahrang Baloch International human rights organizations have filed petitions with the United Nations against the detention of Dr. Mahrang Baloch, head of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), which she and her organization describe as unlawful. The BYC welcomed the move, […]
Amnesty International said Baloch activist Jiand Baloch, chairperson of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO), was forcibly disappeared from his home in Quetta on 24 July 2026, and that his whereabouts remain unknown a week later. According to the rights group, the 29-year-old activist, who has two children, was taken from […]
London, UK: Sarang Sindhi, Coordinator, and Saeed Sindhi, Deputy Coordinator, of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh–Europe (VMPS–Europe) have sent a congratulatory letter to the newly appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham, extending best wishes for his leadership and expressing confidence in the United Kingdom’s continued commitment […]
ISLAMABAD: Human rights activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari has completed 180 days in detention, marking her 33rd birthday in jail alongside her husband and fellow lawyer, Hadi Ali Chattha. Legal proceedings against the couple continue in a case related to a post on the social media platform X (formerly […]
LONDON: PEN International, one of the world’s oldest and most respected literary and human rights organisations, has accused Pakistan of systematically misusing security and anti-terrorism laws to suppress peaceful political activism, amid growing international concern over the treatment of civil society members in Balochistan. The organisation’s statement came in direct […]
