The Pakistan Army is indiscriminately targeting unarmed civilians in Balochistan, and the silence of the international community has drastically exacerbated the region’s multifaceted human rights crisis. In this week alone, 17 individuals have been extrajudicially killed. Enforced disappearances are occurring on a daily basis in the peripheral areas of Mastung, Noshkai, Zehri, Khuzdar, Kech, and Gwader districts, alongside the relentless shelling of civilian populations by gunship helicopters. The Baloch National Movement (BNM) strongly condemns this state terrorism. Pakistan is committing a systematic genocide of the Baloch nation, making international intervention an absolute necessity.
The central spokesperson for the BNM expressed these views in a statement addressing the recent surge of state terrorism across Balochistan.
Providing further details, the spokesperson stated that Occupied Balochistan continues to suffer under relentless atrocities and military aggression. On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, the Pakistan Army once again targeted the Zehri region. During a raid in the Bulbul area of Zehri, military personnel broke into the home of Khalil Ahmed Musiani, a peaceful political activist. He was shot, arrested in a critically wounded state, and subsequently murdered in custody. Concurrently, the military forcibly disappeared several individuals, including Zehri Khan Musiani, Shakar Khan, Sanaullah Musiani, Umeed Ali Khan, Dost Muhammad, and Irshad Ahmed, among others, whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day.
Elaborating on further incidents, the spokesperson noted that on May 31, military shelling in Kardagap, Mastung, resulted in the death of Ghulam Jan Sumalani, a driver by profession. On June 1, gunship helicopters shelled the civilian population in Kadd Umrani, located in the Kadd Kocha area. The full extent of the casualties and destruction remains unknown due to a deliberate communication blackout imposed on the area.
The BNM spokesperson emphasized that since the very first day of its occupation in 1948, Balochistan has been a continuous target of Pakistan Army aggression. The state’s policy of crushing political forces through extreme violence and brute force remains in full effect. The unending cycle of enforced disappearances has socially and economically ruined thousands of families. Between May 31 and June 2—a span of just three days—the Pakistan Army explicitly killed 17 people, yet it actively conceals the details of the victims. In many such instances, previously abducted individuals are murdered in custody, with the Pakistan Army masking these atrocities as armed encounters to make false claims of counter-insurgency. Furthermore, the dead bodies of the victims are not being handed over to their grieving relatives.
The spokesperson asserted that the Pakistani state is actively executing a calculated policy of Baloch genocide. This is a gradual, systematic process designed to destroy a nation politically, culturally, socially, and economically. Dozens of villages across the districts of Dera Bugti, Kohlu, Awaran, Zehri, Khuzdar, Panjgur, Kech, and Gwadar have been completely ravaged, forcing mass forced displacement. As a continuation of this scorched-earth policy, the village of Panwan in the Jimuri tehsil of Gwader has recently come under continuous assault.
According to the statement, Pakistan Army personnel are conducting midnight raids on civilian homes in Panwan. Driven to the brink by enforced disappearances, home demolitions, and extrajudicial killings, dozens of families comprising hundreds of individuals have been forced to flee across the border to Western Balochistan. There, they face severe economic and social hardships as refugees, and dozens of children have been entirely deprived of their education.
In conclusion, the spokesperson reiterated that the BNM is utilizing all of its resources to expose the reality of the Balochistan freedom movement to the world. The party urgently calls upon the international community to officially declare Balochistan a war-torn, disputed territory and to intervene immediately. Without the restoration of Balochistan’s independence, not only is the very survival of the Baloch nation at risk, but the establishment of strategic peace in this vital geopolitical region also remains strictly contingent upon the Baloch right to self-determination and national freedom.
