Overview

• Zeeshan Baloch, a 21-year-old student from Khudabadan, was abducted at Football Chowk on June 29 and found shot dead near Surdu Ghareeb Nawaz Hotel the following morning.
• The Baloch Yakjehti Committee attributes the killing to Pakistan Army–affiliated death squads and calls it part of a multigenerational cycle of enforced disappearances.
• Paank warns that Zeeshan’s execution underscores a broader campaign of state-backed abductions and extrajudicial killings targeting Baloch youth and activists.
• Zeeshan had been actively campaigning for his father, Zaheer Ahmed Baloch, who has remained missing since his own abduction by security forces in April 2015.
• Both BYC and Paank have urged United Nations human rights bodies to investigate the incident and intervene over continuing abuses in Balochistan.