Mahrang Baloch is a Baloch human rights activist from Balochistan, Pakistan.
Her family lived in Quetta before relocating to Karachi for her mother's medical care. On December 12, 2009, her father was forcibly 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 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.
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Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Baloch people Human rights activists Women human rights activists People from Quetta Pakistani activists 21st-century Pakistani women 1990s births Pakistani women activists