Kech, May 31 -- Paank, the human rights wing of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), has strongly condemned the latest wave of extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, holding the Pakistani military establishment responsible for what it termed "a campaign of state-sponsored terror."

In just over a week, five Baloch civilians were unlawfully killed in separate incidents across Kech and Awaran districts, continuing what rights activists describe as a pattern of impunity and systemic violence.

According to Paank, on May 20, Yasir s/o Nasram Baloch, a daily wage labourer from Geshkur, Kech, was shot dead by a military-backed death squad. On May 27, Darman Baloch s/o Rahim Bakhsh was summoned to a military camp in Awaran, detained and briefly r...