A Balochistan based Human rights group, Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) has released its yearly report in which it pointed out the dire human rights situation of Balochistan in 2021, The Balochistan Post reported on May 12. According to the report, the year 2021 witnessed a drastic change in human rights situation in Balochistan. HRCB, in comparison to previous years, recorded an increase in fake encounters committed by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) killing 47, while there was a rise in cases of enforced disappearances, extra judicial killings, target killings, torture, collective punishment, killing of women for honor. Students remained the main target of military and its shadow organizations, both in Balochistan as well as in other provinces of Pakistan. A large number of Balochistan’s students were forcibly disappeared in 2021. HRCB received reports of enforced disappearance of 442 people, out of whom 170 were later tortured and released while whereabouts of 272 people remained unknown at the time of writing this report. A total of 366 people were killed.