The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has urgently called for the release of Mahjabeen Baloch, her brother Muhammad Younus Baloch, and other individuals who have been forcibly disappeared. VBMP is raising alarms over an alarming trend of abductions of Baloch women in Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province. During a press briefing at their ongoing protest camp outside the Quetta Press Club, which has been active for over 5,845 days, VBMP leaders vehemently condemned the recent disappearance of Mahjabeen Baloch, a Library Science student from the University of Balochistan and a resident of Basima, Washuk district.
VBMP reports that Mahjabeen was apprehended during a joint operation by police, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), and other security forces. Her brother, Younus Baloch, an engineering student, had previously been detained by the same forces and remains missing. VBMP highlights a troubling pattern of collective familial targeting. They cite the killing of Shah Jahan Kurd, brother of missing Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) chairman Zahid Baloch, as part of efforts to clamp down on dissent and silence activism.