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๐๐๐๐ง๐ช๐๐ง๐ฎ 2026 โ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ, ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ Hamdan, son of Muhammad Ali, a 24-year-old student and resident of Mangopir, Purana Golimar, Karachi, was forcibly disappeared on December 29, 2025. He was taken from Dubi Goth, Golimar, Karachi, by personnel of CTD. After he was taken, his family received no information about his whereabouts.
Weeks after his disappearance, CTD announced that Hamdan was among several individuals killed during an armed encounter in Shah Latif Town, Karachi. Authorities stated that the deceased were militants who died during an exchange of fire. However, Hamdan had already been in custody since December 2025, which raises serious concerns about the authenticity of this encounter. This pattern has surfaced repeatedly in Balochistan and Karachi, where young men are first taken into custody and later declared killed in security operations. Such cases point toward extrajudicial executions and fake encounters, which are carried out under the cover of counterterrorism actions.
Hamdan was a student. His disappearance, followed by his death in a claimed encounter,r reflects a continuing pattern in which individuals are removed from legal protection and later presented as casualties of armed confrontations. If an individual already in custody is later shown as killed in a gun battle, it constitutes a serious violation of the right to life, due process, and protection from arbitrary detention under international human rights law, including Articles 6 and 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
We urged international organisations that Balochistan needs your attention on an urgent basis, where youth are being targeted, mutilated bodies are being dumped with torture and extrajudicially killed in fake encounters by CTD, State-Backed Death Squad, and the State Army.
