The Real Story of Suhaib Longoy’s Disappearance
The cover-up of the missing persons propaganda – the real story of Suhaib Longoy
The name Suhaib Longoy has been floating around in activist circles for years. If you listened only to the Baloch Youth Council (BYC) and their allied media platforms like PANK and BAAM, you’d probably think he was a poor young man “disappeared” by the state, another face in the long list of alleged missing persons. But the actual story is very different, and it says a lot about how propaganda is used to blur the line between human rights activism and violent militancy.
Who is Suhaib Longoy
Suhaib wasn’t some ordinary protester or innocent civilian. He was a registered operator of the banned BLA, something the group itself later admitted. He also wasn’t a stranger to Dr. Mehrang Baloch, who often fronts BYC demonstrations. Longoy was both her cousin and her personal bodyguard. He didn’t just stand in the crowd at sit-ins with placards, he took part in armed operations against the state.
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The timing that exposed the lie
On 21 July 2025, Longoy was killed during a BLA attack in Qalat. That should have been the end of the story. Yet three days later, BYC and its media wings claimed he had been abducted from Sariab Road in Quetta. Imagine if he was already dead but still being paraded as “missing.” That kind of timeline isn’t a mistake, it’s a calculated move to keep fueling the missing person’s narrative, regardless of the facts.
This isn’t the first time BYC has pulled the same stunt. Before Suhaib, there were others. Karim Jan, tied to the 2024 Gwadar attack. Then Abd al-Wadud, involved in the Naval Base attack. Also, Wadud Satakzai, linked to what became known as the Fish Attack.
Each of them was presented as a victim of disappearance. Each of them turned out to be part of violent operations. The pattern is clear that the same individuals who show up in protests as “oppressed” later show up in the headlines for terror attacks.
Mehrang Baloch’s role
A lot of this narrative work has been driven by Mehrang Baloch. She’s become a recognizable face in the missing person’s movement, but her role isn’t as clean as it looks. By standing side by side with men like Suhaib, presenting them as victims, she blurred the truth deliberately. To the outside world, that looks like a family tragedy. To those watching closely, it’s a clever use of family ties to give the propaganda more credibility.
The whole Longoy episode lays bare what’s really going on. This isn’t about human rights in the simple sense of the word. It’s about hiding terrorism under the cloak of activism.
And that’s dangerous for two reasons. First, it lets armed groups operate with a layer of protection, because anyone questioning them is accused of denying human rights. Second, it drowns out the voices of real victims. There are genuine cases of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, but when organizations keep pushing militants as “missing,” they make it harder to take legitimate complaints seriously.
Propaganda like this is powerful because it plays on sympathy. It’s easier for international observers to believe the story of a young man ripped from his family than to dig into whether that same man was carrying a gun the week before.
By the time the truth comes out, if it ever does, the emotional impact of the propaganda has already done its job.
At the end of the day, Suhaib Longoy wasn’t abducted or silenced unjustly. He died while fighting as a BLA terrorist operator. The fact that his death was spun into a disappearance claim just shows how far the BYC and its media partners are willing to go to protect their narrative. It’s not about justice, and it’s not about human rights. It’s about covering for terrorism, plain and simple.
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