Tag: Enforced Disappearance

In a video uploaded to social media Nazim Jokhio's wife Shireen has announced that she has decided to forgive the murderers of her husband.

According to figures released by the Human Rights Council of Balochistan, only during the month of December 2021, more than 63 people were abducted and are missing while 37 were killed in different parts of the disturbed and turbulent province

The Senate Secretariat received a bill on criminilisation of enforced disappearance on November 10, two days after it was passed in the National Assembly putting a question mark on the reported statement of Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari about the bill going missing in transit to the upper house.

"I will ask him, What’s the purpose of being a PM when you are helpless," says Rahat, mother of missing journalist Naaru

False claim of enforced disappearance punishable by up to 5 years

A provincial consultation meeting called for the establishment of a joint platform against enforced disappearances in Pakistan.

A much-awaited bill on enforced disappearances has cleared another hurdle in the lower house of parliament

As the protests against enforced disappearances grow louder and the world marks the International Day for Enforced Disappearances, in Pakistan, it may be the other way round.

Another Eid has passed away adding to the agony of Shrafat Bibi in Swat. Having searched frantically for her husband in the last fours years, she was finally informed last month that her husband is detained at an internment center.

A UN panel has called upon Pakistan to raise the proposed max sentence from 10 yrs to 25 yrs, & max 40 yrs for the offence of enforced disappearance