Balochistan, June 14 -- Families of two young men allegedly subjected to enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing by Pakistani security forces are staging a peaceful sit-in outside the Deputy Commissioner's office in Turbat, the administrative centre of Balochistan's Kech district.

The relatives of 20-year-old Saifullah claimed that he was picked up by security forces on April 20.

Despite formally lodging a missing person complaint on April 23, they say there was no official response. When the family followed up on June 13, officials informed them that Saifullah had been killed in an alleged armed encounter on April 29 and buried, without notifying the family or disclosing the location of the grave.

In a parallel case, another ...