Naeem Sabir, also known as Naeem Sabir Jamaldini, was a prominent Pakistani social worker and human rights activist in

Khuzdar Khuzdar ( Balochi, , ) also known as ''Hozdar'', is a city and the administrative headquarters of Khuzdar District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Khuzdar is surrounded by mountainous region of the southwestern portion of the country near ...

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; , ), also spelled as Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in West and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. This arid region o ...

. He had been associated with the

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP; ) is an independent, democratic non-profit organisation. Founded in 1987, it is one of the oldest human rights organisations in the country. HRCP is committed to monitoring, protecting and prom ...

(HRCP) since 1997 and had been working to promote human rights in the district. In the recent past, he had been helping the Commission in documenting the cases of enforced disappearances of students, lawyers, political activists and other citizens and the subsequent recovery of their bullet-ridden, mutilated bodies in desolate places in the province. Sabir was shot dead by armed motorcyclists in

district on Tuesday, 1 March 2011. An armed group called Baloch Musla Defai Tanzee, which is believed to be working at the behest of intelligence agencies of

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

to thwart a snowballing insurgency in the oil and gas rich province, claimed responsibility for the assassination. Sabir was survived by a bereaved widow and a less than 2-year-old child. The assassination was condemned by the HRCP, which issued a statement "The assassins of Federal Minister for Minority Affairs

Shahbaz Bhatti Clement Shahbaz Bhatti (9 September 19682 March 2011) was a Pakistani politician and the first Christian Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2008 for the Pakistan People's Party. Bhatt ...

and Mr Naeem Sabir, HRCP coordinator in Khuzdar district, may perhaps belong to different groups but they represent the militant hardliners who are out to obliterate the rights of the non-Muslim citizens of Pakistan and eliminate the human rights defenders who raise their voice against persecution on any ground. HRCP expresses its sense of outrage and deep grief at the foul murders."Obituary
hrdmemorial.org. Accessed 22 April 2025.

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{{reflist Pakistani human rights activists Assassinated Pakistani activists 2011 deaths