Balochistan, Feb. 1 -- The enforced disappearance of Baloch women represents a grave escalation of state violence in Balochistan and must be viewed through frameworks of necropolitics, identity-based marginalisation and colonial governance, Central Organizer of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, Mahrang Baloch, said in a detailed post on X.

Mahrang Baloch wrote that for decades the Baloch have been treated as a "suspect population," governed through coercion and exclusion rather than citizenship, consent or inclusion. She said enforced disappearances, long used against Baloch men, have now expanded into a gendered strategy targeting women and girls, including students, minors, pregnant women and persons with disabilities, many of whom have n...