The Baloch Advocacy and Studies Center (BASC) is gravely concerned at the forcible disappearance of Nasreena, a minor girl abducted during a violent raid on her residence in Hub, Balochistan, on 22 November 2025. Police forces, accompanied by plain-clothed personnel from state intelligence agencies, carried out the operation, and her family has since been denied any information regarding her whereabouts or the grounds for her detention. This incident follows the disappearance of Mahjabeen, a 23-year-old woman taken from Quetta earlier this year, whose fate also remains unknown.
These cases once again lay bare the systematic and ongoing violations of human rights in Balochistan. The continued erosion of the rule of law, the widespread use of arbitrary detention, and the rising number of enforced disappearances are unacceptable. Although enforced disappearances have long characterised the human rights crisis in Balochistan, the increasing involvement of women and girls highlights the extent to which state repression has intensified.
These abuses persist within a broader environment of entrenched impunity. Pakistan’s security and intelligence agencies continue to operate without oversight, while a compromised judicial system has failed to prevent or prosecute these violations. Pakistan has not criminalised enforced disappearance, has not ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and routinely violates its obligations under the ICCPR, CAT, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In light of the consistent, intentional, and widespread nature of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, the international community must recognise that the situation constitutes a systematic policy aimed at suppressing the Baloch people’s political aspirations and right to self-determination, and now represents one of South Asia’s most pressing human rights emergencies.
BASC urges the international community and the United Nations to take concrete action, including sustained diplomatic pressure on Pakistan, targeted sanctions against military and intelligence officials implicated in abuses, and the establishment of an independent international fact-finding mission with full access to affected areas. Such measures must not only secure the release of Nasreena and Mahjabeen but also ensure that these abuses are prevented in the future.