TURBAT, Balochistan — The mutilated body of a young Baloch man, who was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces five months ago, was discovered dumped on the morning of June 20, 2026, near the Bank Chirdhai area of Kech district. The victim has been identified as Rahmdil, son of Mohammad Bakhsh, a resident of the Tajaban area in Kech.
According to verified field reports, Rahmdil’s extrajudicial killing follows a harrowing pattern of state-sponsored abduction and broken official promises. The ordeal began on January 17, 2026, when Rahmdil was officially summoned by Pakistani military authorities to the Hoshap army camp. Following an initial interrogation, camp officials informed Rahmdil and his accompanying older brother that they were free to leave the premises.
However, eyewitness accounts reveal that the release was a setup. Only a short distance away from the military facility, at a location known as Guwand Sarin, state security agents operating alongside local state-sponsored militia members (commonly referred to as death squads) intercepted the brothers. The armed men violently assaulted the older brother before releasing him, while Rahmdil was forcefully bundled into a vehicle and taken to an undisclosed location.
Following his disappearance, Rahmdil’s family initiated a series of local protests. On January 20, 2026, grieving relatives and local residents staged a sit-in, blocking the main China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) highway at Tajaban to demand his immediate and safe recovery. The blockade was only dismantled after high-ranking local administrative and military authorities intervened, officially assuring the family that Rahmdil was safe and promising his imminent release.
The discovery of Rahmdil’s severely tortured and mutilated body on Saturday morning has sparked widespread outrage across the region, demonstrating once again that official state assurances regarding missing persons routinely result in extrajudicial executions.
The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) strongly condemns this heinous extrajudicial killing. The organization emphasizes that the practice of detaining individuals, denying their custody, promising their safe return to defuse public protests, and subsequently dumping their tortured bodies constitutes a severe violation of international humanitarian law and the right to life.
The IVBMP urgently calls upon international human rights organizations, including the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, to take notice of the escalating custodial killings in Balochistan. The organization demands an independent international investigation into the abduction and murder of Rahmdil, insisting that the military personnel and state-backed actors involved be held strictly accountable under international legal frameworks.
