Masood Ahmed Janjua
Disappeared
- Date30 July 2005
- LocationTaken from a bus en route to Peshawar
- RegionPunjab / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A Rawalpindi businessman who disappeared on 30 July 2005 while travelling to Peshawar. His wife, Amina Masood Janjua, spent two decades searching for him; her campaign catalysed the founding of Defence of Human Rights and one of Pakistan's first organised movements against enforced disappearance.
Source: Defence of Human Rights (DHR), submission to the UN Working Group, 2026
Hanif Pashteen
Disappeared
- Date12 November 2025
- LocationDetained in Peshawar
- RegionPeshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A Pashtun Tahafuz Movement activist taken into custody with six others on 12 November 2025 as the delegation left a provincial-government peace jirga. Five of the seven were released in January 2026; his whereabouts remain undisclosed and no charges were communicated to his family.
Source: Amnesty International, Urgent Action 44.26
Noor Ullah Tareen
Disappeared
- Date12 November 2025
- LocationDetained in Peshawar
- RegionPeshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A PTM activist detained alongside Hanif Pashteen on 12 November 2025 after a provincial-government event in Peshawar. As of Amnesty International's reporting he remained disappeared with his location undisclosed.
Source: Amnesty International, Urgent Action 44.26
Fareedullah (Fareed) Afridi
Disappeared
- Date1 May 2026
- LocationKhyber region
- RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
A PTM member whose abduction was documented by Amnesty International in May 2026. Police had not registered a First Information Report despite the family's request. Rights monitors treat that refusal as a red flag.
Source: Amnesty International, documented May 2026
Idris Khattak
Disappeared
- Date13 November 2019
- LocationIslamabad
- RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
A human-rights activist who was disappeared in November 2019 and held without access to his family for an extended period before his case entered the legal system. His case was taken up by Amnesty International and other monitors as emblematic of the targeting of rights defenders.
Source: Amnesty International / Human Rights Watch documentation
Zabir Shah Agha
Disappeared
- Date25 June 2026
- LocationTaken during a meeting
- RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
A PTM Central Committee member the movement says was abducted by an intelligence agency during a meeting to plan the release of other detained members. His release was announced in July 2026, when the PTM welcomed the freeing of several activists.
Source: AtlasPress News Agency, 25 July 2026
Manzoor Pashteen
In detention
- Date21 October 2025
- LocationIslamabad
- RegionKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
The founder of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, detained repeatedly over the years. In October 2025 an Islamabad anti-terrorism court issued a warrant for his arrest over non-appearance in a case tied to the August 2023 Tarnol protest. He has gone largely out of public view while challenging the PTM ban.
Source: The Peshawar Post / The Pamphlet, October 2025
Ali Wazir
In detention
- LocationVarious
- RegionWaziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A former member of the National Assembly and a leading PTM figure, arrested and detained on multiple occasions. His continued detention was among the names raised by PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen in July 2026 in a call to intensify the campaign to free jailed members.
Source: Multiple outlets; AtlasPress, July 2026
Tajmanullah
Killed
- Date1 June 2025
- LocationIn custody
- RegionSouth Waziristan
A PTM member from South Waziristan who, according to local activists and PTM officials cited in a UK government country note, died in June 2025 after eight years in custody without ever being formally charged or tried. Pashtun rights advocates described him as one of hundreds detained without due process.
Source: Amu TV, cited in UK Home Office country policy note, February 2026
Arif Wazir
Killed
- Date2 May 2020
- LocationSouth Waziristan
- RegionSouth Waziristan
A PTM leader shot in South Waziristan in 2020; he died of his wounds days later. His death was one of several killings of prominent Pashtun rights activists that year, widely cited in calls for investigation.
Source: International reporting
Hayat Baloch
Killed
- Date21 November 2020
- LocationKarachi
- RegionKarachi, Sindh
A PTM leader shot dead in Karachi in November 2020. His killing, and the deaths of other Pashtun and Baloch activists that year, were raised by rights groups demanding independent investigations.
Source: International reporting
Karima Baloch
Killed
- Date20 December 2020
- LocationToronto
- RegionToronto, Canada (in exile)
A prominent Baloch and Pashtun rights activist in exile who went missing and was later found dead in Toronto in December 2020. Her death intensified concern about the safety of diaspora activists.
Source: International reporting
Usman Kakar
Killed
- Date26 June 2021
- LocationQuetta
- RegionQuetta, Balochistan
A former senator and Pashtun rights figure found dead at his home in Quetta in June 2021. His death was among those cited in the Pashtun National Jirga's demand for a judicial inquiry into the killings of national activists.
Source: International reporting
Nawab Ali
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 June 2025
- LocationPewar Sharankhel, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Killed on the spot in one of two landmine explosions near the border area of Pewar Sharankhel. Devices detonated as the group neared a mountain area; two horses were also killed and four others wounded.
Source: Dawn, 26 June 2025
Aamir Hussain
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 June 2025
- LocationPewar Sharankhel, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
One of four men killed when landmines exploded near the border area of Pewar Sharankhel on 25 June 2025.
Source: Dawn, 26 June 2025
Hidayat Hussain
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 June 2025
- LocationPewar Sharankhel, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
One of four men killed in the landmine explosions near Pewar Sharankhel on 25 June 2025.
Source: Dawn, 26 June 2025
Manzar Ali
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 June 2025
- LocationPewar Sharankhel, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
One of four men killed in the landmine explosions near Pewar Sharankhel on 25 June 2025.
Source: Dawn, 26 June 2025
Hassan Ghulam
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 September 2025
- LocationKhamzai, Pewar, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Killed by a landmine while travelling with his son to a mountain in the border locality of Pewar. His son, Sadiq Hussain, was injured in the same blast.
Source: The Nation, 26 September 2025
Sadiq Hussain
Landmine / UXO
- Date25 September 2025
- LocationKhamzai, Pewar, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Injured in the same landmine explosion that killed his father, Hassan Ghulam, on 25 September 2025.
Source: The Nation, 26 September 2025
Iqbal Hussain
Landmine / UXO
- Date28 March 2026
- LocationNistikot, Upper Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Critically wounded in a landmine blast in the Nistikot area of Upper Kurram and died while being taken to hospital, in one of three explosions that day.
Source: Dawn, 29 March 2026
Akbar Ali
Landmine / UXO
- Date28 March 2026
- LocationNistikot, Upper Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Killed in the third of three landmine explosions in the Nistikot area of Upper Kurram on 28 March 2026.
Source: Dawn, 29 March 2026
Syed Guloon Shah
Landmine / UXO
- Date28 March 2026
- LocationNistikot, Upper Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Injured in the first of three landmine explosions in the Nistikot area of Upper Kurram on 28 March 2026.
Source: The News, 29 March 2026
Hamid Hussain
Landmine / UXO
- Date16 August 2026
- LocationDandar Sahara, Kurram
- RegionKurram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A labourer who lost both feet when a buried device detonated in the remote Dandar Sahara area. One of three amputations recorded in a single day; local representatives said more than 25 blasts in weeks had left five dead and 25 permanently disabled.
Source: Daily Excelsior (PTI) / Khyber News, 17 August 2026