In yet another display of brutality, Pakistan Army abducted a young student, Attaullah, son of Jumma Khan, from his home in Kali Jumma Khan, Quetta, on September 5. The 14-year-old boy, an eighth-grade student attending classes regularly, has been missing ever since, with no information about his whereabouts. On October 19, Pak forces abducted another student, 17-year-old Qadeer Ahmed, son of Lal Bakhsh, from the Pasni area of POB.
This forced disappearance is part of the ongoing campaign of repression in Pak-occupied-Balochistan, where the Pakistan Army has been systematically silencing Baloch voices through abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings. The boy’s family is no stranger to the occupied-state’s tyranny. A relative, Muhammad Ali Chapar, was abducted by Pak forces in Kalat, only to be found dead later—an example of the infamous “kill-and-dump” policy frequently employed by the military to crush Baloch community.
For decades, Baloch families have been living under the shadow of fear, targeted by military-backed death squads and subjected to forced disappearances. The Paki establishment’s colonial mindset has treated Baloch lives as disposable, with children like Attaullah becoming the latest victims of a occupied-state apparatus that operates with complete impunity.
The abduction of a schoolboy underscores how deep the military’s oppression runs in POB, where even children are not spared from being pawns in the Army’s violent campaign to subjugate the region. It is a reflection of the systematic atrocities inflicted on the Baloch people since Pakistan’s forceful occupation of the region in 1948.