The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) has alleged that three more people, including a 15-year-old, were forcibly disappeared from the Quetta and Surab districts of Balochistan this month, in cases the rights group says were carried out by state security and intelligence agencies.

In a statement, the BYC said Aziz Baloch, a 15-year-old who works as a rickshaw driver, was taken from the Sariab Road area of Quetta on 23 July, allegedly by personnel of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).

In Surab, the group said two labourers Khalil Ahmed, 30, and Gull Muhammad, 27 were detained from their homes in the Nigwar area on 12 July, allegedly by Security Forces. It said the families had been given no information about the men's whereabouts.

The allegations come amid what Baloch rights organisations describe as an intensifying wave of enforced disappearances across the province. In recent days, Paank, the human rights wing of the Baloch National Movement, has reported several further cases, while the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has continued its long-running protest camp outside the Quetta Press Club, now well past its 6,000th day.

Pakistani authorities have not commented on the latest cases. Security agencies have consistently denied involvement in enforced disappearances, and the state has maintained that many of those reported missing have joined militant groups or left of their own accord ; an assertion that families and rights groups reject. Enforced disappearance, in which a person is detained and the authorities conceal their fate or whereabouts, is prohibited under international human rights law.

Published in Balochistan Dispatch, July 27th, 2026