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In the first six months of 2025, Balochistan has witnessed a dramatic escalation in state violence. The Human Rights Council of Balochistan recorded 814 enforced disappearances between January and June—nearly equalling the total for all of 2024. Students, activists, labourers, and ordinary civilians have been systematically targeted by security forces and state agencies.
At least 131 people have been killed without trial through custodial torture, staged encounters, and indiscriminate military operations. The peaceful Baloch Yakjehti Committee has faced severe repression, with its leaders arrested, protests violently broken up, homes raided, and smear campaigns launched to silence dissenting voices.
In June, the provincial assembly passed a controversial amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, granting security agencies broad powers to arrest without warrants, detain individuals for up to 90 days without trial, and operate so-called “de-radicalisation centres,” which effectively act as internment facilities.
This violence has spared no one. Thirteen-year-old protester Nehmat Baloch was shot dead during a police assault on a peaceful sit-in. Despite repeated appeals from human rights groups at home and abroad, the state continues to act with total impunity. This report exposes the machinery of repression and calls for urgent action to end these abuses.
