Balochistan, Aug. 19 -- Balochistan witnessed a severe deterioration in its human rights situation in 2025, with a sharp rise in enforced disappearances, killings, and suppression of peaceful dissent, according to a report by the Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB).

According to the report, Pakistani forces, secret agencies, and their backed local militias were responsible for 1,482 cases of enforced disappearances in 2025, marking a 79 per cent increase compared with 2024.

The report documented 598 killings during the year, representing an approximately 25 per cent increase from the previous year. Of the total killings, 325 cases, or 54.3 per cent, were attributed to security forces and state-sponsored death squads, the report s...