The Paki establishment’s brutal crackdown on Baloch youth continues, as yet another student, Yasir Baloch, has gone missing under suspicious circumstances in Karachi. Yasir, a resident of Malir, disappeared on the night of February 24-25 while returning home from Gulshan-e-Iqbal after meeting his friends. His family and friends have been unable to contact him since.
Yasir Ali, son of Sabzal Ali, was a Media Sciences student at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University. He left Gulshan-e-Iqbal around 10:30 PM for his home in Juma Malir Goth but never made it back. His disappearance follows the same disturbing pattern of enforced disappearances targeting Baloch students, activists, and intellectuals across Pakistan.
His family fears that Yasir has been abducted by Army-backed agencies, just like countless other Baloch students who have been forcibly disappeared for daring to belong to a community that the Paki establishment has long sought to silence. They have made a desperate appeal for his immediate release, demanding to know his whereabouts.
Earlier on Thursday, Pak forces abducted another young Baloch, Sabir, son of Ali Dost, from Karachi’s Lyari area. Sabir, originally from Gresha, Khuzdar, was taken into custody by Pak security forces and shifted to an undisclosed location. Reportedly, he was detained without justification, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
The systematic abduction of Baloch youth exposes the true face of Pakistan’s military-controlled regime, which continues to treat POB and its people as colonial subjects. Enforced disappearances have become a weapon of terror wielded by Punjabi Paki establishment agencies, who operate with absolute impunity.