The mutilated physique of a youth reportedly subjected to enforced disappearance was recovered in Kech district of Pakistan’s Balochistan on Tuesday.
The physique of Usman Maqbool, who was allegedly kidnapped from Turbat on August 24, was discovered within the Pidrak space on the morning of August 26, as reported by The Balochistan Put up.
The Balochistan Put up had earlier reported on Maqbool’s disappearance, alongside two different comparable instances in Karachi and Kech.
Maqbool, a resident of Pidrak, had beforehand been kidnapped in 2019 from Pidrak and held incommunicado for 2 years earlier than being launched in 2021. His detention and dying haven’t been addressed by Pakistani authorities, who’ve but to situation an official assertion on the case.
“On 26 August 2025, the mutilated physique of Usman Maqbool was recovered from Banuk Chadhai within the Pidrak space of Turbat, Balochistan. He had been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani army forces simply two days earlier, on 24 August, from Turbat, district Kech. Usman, a resident of Pidark, had beforehand been kidnapped in 2019 from Pedarak and held incommunicado for 2 years earlier than being launched in 2021,” PAANK posted on X.
PAANK’s submit moreover condemned the killing and held the Pakistani state answerable for the continued marketing campaign of enforced disappearances and focused killings of Baloch civilians, utilizing the hashtag #StopBalochGenocide.
The Balochistan Put up notes that Usman Maqbool’s case is a part of a broader sample of reported human rights violations in Balochistan, the place 1000’s of individuals have reportedly gone lacking over the previous twenty years. Most of the disappeared have later been discovered useless underneath suspicious circumstances, typically displaying indicators of torture.
Households of victims reportedly face harassment and intimidation whereas searching for info and justice. Investigations into such instances, when carried out, are not often concluded and rarely end in prosecutions, in response to The Balochistan Put up.