A recent surge in the alleged enforced disappearances of students and young people in Pakistan's Balochistan province has raised fresh concerns over the treatment of those linked to peaceful political organisations. Human rights activist Sammi Deen Baloch expressed her condemnation of the events and alleged that individuals are being taken from their homes, hostels and educational institutions.
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In a statement posted on X, Baloch described the development as alarming and a part of a broader pattern of enforced disappearances that has persisted in the restive province.
"The cycle of enforced disappearances in Balochistan has never truly stopped, but over the past few days in particular, there has been an alarmingly dangerous surge in the enforced disappearances of students," she said in a statement posted on X.
