The BYC's roots can be traced back to July 2018, when Mahrang Baloch conceived the idea for its formation following the abduction of her brother by Pakistani intelligence agencies.
[4] The BYC was founded following the attack in Turbat on the night of May 26, 2020, which resulted in the death of a Baloch woman, Malik Naz, and injuries to her four-year-old daughter, Bramsh.
Despite facing near-freezing temperatures, nearly 400 Baloch protesters, half of them women and children, staged a month-long sit-in outside the National Press Club of Islamabad to demand justice for their missing and murdered family members.
Balach was abducted from his home on the night of October 29 by men in civilian clothes, suspected to be security officials, and was later killed in custody after a staged encounter by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan.
"[10] The protest was met with repeated harassment, arbitrary arrests, and disinformation campaigns by Pakistani authorities, including shelling and filing sedition cases against BYC leaders like Mahrang Baloch.
[citation needed] On July 27, 2024, the Frontier Corps, a Pakistani paramilitary force, fired on participants traveling to the Gwadar gathering, injuring 14.