Overview

• Zeeshan Zaheer was intercepted after a June 29 football match in Panjgur and found dead July 1 with six bullet wounds, knife scars and clear signs of torture.
• Rights groups report his killing as the ninth extrajudicial death in Balochistan within a single week.
• Families and residents have blockaded the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor highway and rallied in Panjgur under the Baloch Yakjehti Committee banner.
• Human Rights Watch and the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances estimate more than 8,400 enforced disappearances in the province since 2011.
• The Pakistani military rejects allegations of death squads despite longstanding documentation of abductions, torture and extrajudicial killings by international monitors.