Pakistani regime refused to release Baloch human rights leader Dr Mahrang Baloch and other Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) activists Bebow Baloch and Gulzadi Baloch, and extended their custody by another fifteen days on frivolous charges. The Pakistani regime, through its puppet judiciary and armed forces, has falsely charged Mahrang Baloch and other BYC leaders of being a proxy to Baloch revolutionaries and of inciting violence and unrest. Defiant Mahrang Baloch dismissed all allegations as “baseless and state propaganda” and urged the common Baloch to fearlessly protest for their rights.
“These people (Pakistani regime) who want to suppress and weaken us are themselves weak. I urge all the Baloch to come out on the streets and demand their rights fearlessly,” Mahrang Baloch said at the sidelines during the judicial hearing. Dr Mahrang praised the Baloch women and children who have been sitting in protest at Islamabad for more than a month braving intense heat and rain demanding that all the “missing” and “disappeared” Baloch be immediately released.
“Today marks the 38th consecutive day of the Islamabad sit-in by the families of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders and the forcibly disappeared. For over a month, these families have braved extreme weather, harassment, and restrictions, yet their call for justice remains steadfast. Pakistani authorities today once again extended the illegal detention of Dr. Mahrang Baloch and other BYC leaders for another 15 days. This extension, without due process, highlights the state’s ongoing attempt to silence voices demanding an end to enforced disappearances in Balochistan,” the Baloch Yakjehti Committee said in their statement. The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) is a conglomeration of activists and intellectuals who are fighting for the human rights violation of Baloch by the Pakistani regime. BYC’s leader and organiser Dr. Mahrang Baloch was arrested by the Pakistani regime on March 22, 2025 and remains under illegal detention since then.
During the last two decades more than 250,000 Baloch have gone “missing” or have been forcibly “disappeared” by the Pakistani armed forces. Another 15,000 Baloch have been killed under the “kill and dump” policy of Pakistan Army.
Balochistan continues to be under illegal occupation of the Pakistan Army so the entire administration, provincial government and even the courts are mere puppets at the hands of GHQ Rawalpindi. There being no rule of law, the judgements and orders are typed in Rawalpindi/Islamabad and stamped by the puppet judges installed in the courts of occupied Balochistan.
