Mahjabeen Baloch, a student at the University of Balochistan, has been missing since 29 May 2025. Earlier on 24 May, her brother Younas Baloch was forcibly disappeared by security forces. The clampdown by authorities on students has intensified after protests in Quetta, which resulted in the arrest of Baloch activists including Mahrang Baloch. Javid Musafir Baloch, a law student at Karachi University, has been missing since a raid by police and counter terrorism department officials, as per eyewitnesses, at his residence in Karachi on 23 April, and another student Guhram Ishaq was picked up outside Civil Hospital Quetta on 24 April. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Amnesty International calls on the Pakistani authorities to conduct prompt, thorough and effective investigations into the enforced disappearances, disclose the whereabouts of the Baloch students and immediately release them. Those deemed responsible for these disappearances should be brought to justice through fair trials. The practice of enforced disappearances runs contrary to Pakistan’s international human rights obligations.
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