Similar to a colony, Balochistan is going through every sort of evil – from enforced disappearances to extrajudicial murders, and media blackout to threats and harassment (particularly to political workers). Where once enforced disappearances, mainly, as alleged, by the security personnel, were used as an “economic activity” under which the organs of the forcibly disappeared Baloch were sold, with some more serious allegations of making footage for Dark-Web, the new normal, which is also not new, is kidnapping for ransom – a trend that has reinitiated in Turbat.
In a latest development, two “pity-elite” sons, Haseeb Yaseen son of “Seth” Yaseen and Shah Nawaz Gul son of “Tekhedar” Gul Jan Rind were kidnapped from Kech in December 2025. After few days of their abductions, “unknown numbers” call them and asked for ransom to release the two abductees. People from various backgrounds, led by National Party president and sitting Member of Provincial Assembly, Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch, participated in a combined Press Conference at Turbat Press Club where they did not only discourage such acts but also “claimed to know” the feeders of the abductors, while asking for the immediate and safe release of the two youths.
Very interestingly, at the very same time when the press conference was going on, families of 2 abducted Baloch women, Hani (pregnant of 8 months) and 17-year-old student, Hair-Un-Nisa, were organizing a protesting sit-in at Karki, Tejaban, of the same Kech district. Unfortunately, all the “stakeholders” of Kech district did not feel the need to develop a similar consensus on “increasing pattern of Baloch women abductions”. It ultimately increases the ordinary citizens’ tensions concerning the “district’s stakeholders”. Because to receive such a consensus, one would have to become an elite – or at least a pity elite – which Kech’s majority are not.
Secondly, the district’s journalist community has been very keenly active in this concern which is, on one hand, a treat to watch, and on the other hand, raises questions on their coverage-priority and, again the same fate of being rich to receive such a limelight. Thanks to the very much consensus, one of the two abductees, Haseeb Yaseen, was recovered from “Buleda” to receive whom, the Superintend of Police (Kech), Zohaib Mohsin himself went – yet again keeping the secret a mystery about the abductors, despite the fact that Dr. Malik Baloch and all others likely know them. The Traders Association Kech (Anjuman-i-Tajiran) called for a “complete shutter down” strike on January 9, 2026, against the two detentions – one of whom was recovered – while the Baloch women yet need a “prerequisite” to become the center of such an attention or consensus.
All the above described acts are timely needs of the Baloch society as a whole where enforced disappearances and other severe human rights abuses have become a daily fate for the indigenous people. But to bring into motion all the above, the requirement must not be only becoming “pity-elites” but Baloch as a nation. Now that women abductions are rising, it becomes more the collective responsibility of all sections of the society to develop similar consensus on such issues so that the societal welfare is ensured for the people at large, and not a minority fraction.
