Overview
- A Baloch family blocked the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor highway in Kech after 24-year-old Abidin was allegedly seized by intelligence agents.
- Human rights monitors say Pakistani forces, including the Frontier Corps, carried out a mid-April surge of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances across Panjgur, Gwadar and Kech.
- The Baloch Yakjehti Committee reported that student Hatim Baloch and shepherd Zulfaqar were found dead after earlier abductions.
- The group also alleged four civilians were killed in a staged encounter and that their tortured bodies were delivered to Panjgur Hospital as if from combat.
- Paank said security units raided homes in Gwadar and took four youths, and it reported separate abductions of student Ikram and singer Muhammad Taj in Kech, while urging an international investigation.