What’s there to be scared of in an “X- Space”? Well, Ask the Pakistan Army. An army that boasts of nuclear weapons and 650,000 soldiers got so scared of the “X-Space” programme scheduled by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on August 30, 2025 that GHQ Rawalpindi suspended all internet services across Balochistan so that the Baloch are not able to speak to the world. “X-Space” is an audio-only digital conference on the microblogging site ‘X’ that allows people to speak with audiences across the world.
Hundreds of Baloch women, children and elderly under the aegis of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) continue to protest for the last 46 days braving intense heat, humidity and rain in Islamabad demanding that their family members and friends “disappeared” by the Pakistani forces be released.
Social media is flooded with stories of how innocent Baloch men, women and children were abducted by the Pakistani regime and continue to languish in the Pakistani prisons. Hundreds of Baloch mothers have made fervent appeals to the Pakistani authorities that if their family members have been killed in custody the Paki regime at least inform them about such deaths so that the family members perform last religious rites for them. Yet the heartless Pakistani regime has turned a deaf ear to all mercy petitions, tearful appeals by Baloch mothers and children. The mainstream Pakistani media and a large section of the international media have chosen to ignore the issue of Baloch ‘Missing Persons’.
It was in this backdrop that the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) was formed under the able leadership of Dr Mahrang Baloch, who became the voice of thousands of vulnerable and powerless Baloch women, children and the elderly. As Mahrang Baloch’s voice echoed throughout the world it petrified Field Marshal Asim Munir. The jittery supremo of Pak Army was running out of explanations for the ‘disappearances’ of Baloch. And Whoosh! The diktat came from GHQ Rawalpindi and Dr Mahrang Baloch, along with other BYC activists, was swiftly arrested on March 22, 2025 and continues to remain in Pakistani prison on frivolous charges.
The Baloch have nowhere to go. Entire Balochistan is a prison and every Baloch is a suspect in the eyes of the Pakistan Army. Hayat Baloch, a teenage student was shot dead by the Pakistani forces in 2020 for possessing a pen and a notebook! Dr Deen Muhammad Baloch, a practicing doctor, “disappeared” in 2009 and remains “missing” till date. Zarina Marri, a 23 year old school teacher was kidnapped in 2006 along with her child and remains “missing”. Eyewitness accounts say Zarina Marri continues to be repeatedly raped by the Pakistanis in prison.
Over 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. These numbers aren’t mere statistics, mind you. Each one of those two lakh fifty thousand Baloch who’s gone “missing” or murdered in cold blood leaves behind a grieving family and a tragic story that remains buried. And buried because Pakistan wants them to remain underground, hidden from the world’s eye and public scrutiny. The Paki regime knows that X-Space called by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) will open a pandora’s box of their crimes. When the brave Baloch women and children pour their hearts out on the X-Space it will become extremely difficult for the world to turn a deaf ear.