Mahrang Baloch

Mahrang Baloch Organizer of Baloch Yakjehti Committee is a Baloch human rights activist against unlawful enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killing by the authorities in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Biography
Mahrang was born in 1993 into an Baloch family. Her father Abdul Gaffar Langove was a laborer. Her family lived in Quetta before relocating to Karachi for her mother's medical care mahrang Baloch brave women of Baloch nation

Activism
On December 12, 2009, her father was abducted by Pakistan security forces on his way to the hospital in Karachi. At the age of 16, she immediately started protesting his abduction and became known in the student resistance movement. In July 2011, her father was found dead with signs of torture.

Her brother was later abducted by ISI in December 2017, and was detained for over 3 months. Since then, she has been one of the prominent figure in Baloch resistance movement.

She has protested the government's extraction of natural resources from Balochistan. In 2020, she led a group of students protesting the proposed removal of the quota system at Bolan Medical College, which reserves spots for medical students coming from remote areas of the province. As a result of the group's activism and hunger strikes, the proposed policy change was cancelled.

Balochistan to Islamabad movement
The Balochistan to Islamabad Long March also called Baloch Long March is an protest movement led by Mahrang Baloch and other Baloch women activists, who are marching towards Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, to protest human rights violations and enforced disappearances in Balochistan. The march was a response to the growing number of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the region. According to Baloch Yakjehti Committee, The protestors were abducted by ISI and detained by Islamabad Police. Later a bail was approved that resulted in release of some participants. Some are still missing as per media reports and lawyers.