Quetta: Unidentified men allegedly abducted a Baloch woman identified as Mahal Baloch along with her children from Quetta. According to reports, the children were released on Saturday morning but Mahal Baloch still remains missing.
According to Balochistan Post, the woman was “brutally beaten in the presence of her children” before being forcibly disappeared.
Earlier, unidentified men abducted a Baloch citizen identified as Muhammad Rahim Zehri along with his family members, including his mother, wife, and children, from Quetta. Rahim Zehri still remains missing, while the rest of the family was released.
According to a report released by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIOED) in July 2022, a total of 8,696 cases of missing persons have been reported. While 6,513 of these cases have been solved, 2,219 are still pending. Among the missing persons, the majority of people are from Baloch and Pashtun ethnicities.
However, human rights activists claim the number is much higher than this.
