During the meeting, both sides emphasized the need for closer collaboration on issues concerning Balochistan.

On August 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Baloch National Movement (BNM) staged a protest in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The demonstration was also joined by members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), the Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement, and several human rights activists. Participants carried photographs of the disappeared, along with banners and placards highlighting the issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

hey stated that enforced disappearances at the hands of Pakistani state institutions have become a systematic state policy, targeting thousands of Baloch, Pashtun, Sindhi, and other marginalized communities.

Dr. Naseem Baloch that targeting the BNP’s gathering is essentially a message to those Baloch political circles who still support politics within the Pakistani framework. There is no ambiguity that the BNP’s public gathering and its leader, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, were targeted by the state. Now it depends on the state whether it accepts this act under the name of ISIS or any other state asset, or keeps it hidden. But state silence cannot conceal state crimes.