May 10th, 2021; By Ahmed Saeed; LAHORE; After the sudden death of Sadaf Chughtai, the family appeals to the authorities to ensure the safe release of Muddasir Naaru at the earliest as his 3- year old son is left motherless.
Colonel Inam-ur-Rahim, a lawyer who had fought cases for families of missing persons and coordinator for the Rawalpindi Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee, had been forcibly disappeared by security forces for violating the Official Secrets Act (1923).
The revelation came...
August 17th, 2020
By Shaukat Korai
Karachi:
Activist Sarang Joyo who has been working for the...
May 4th, 2021; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; Activist Haseeba Qambrani has expressed joy at the return of her cousin Hizbullah Qambrani. She hopes that other Missing Persons across Pakistan including her brother Hassan Qambrani will also return soon.
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
"Families of the forcibly disappeared feel a special kind of pain. When I look at the condition of my household I can't help but cry out, it is impossible for me to stay silent," says Sami Deen
Jul 17, 2020: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday, July 16, 2020, turned down a petition to produce orders for the habeas corpus of human rights defender and missing persons advocate Idris Khattak, who has been missing himself for the past eight months ...
Aug. 04, 2020: Families and friends of missing persons have carried on their protest against the state’s policy of enforced disappearances of perceived “threats” to the nation in front of the Karachi Press Club since the past week ...
June 10th, 2021; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; Human rights organisations and representatives of families of missing persons have welcomed tabling of the much-awaited Bill in the National Assembly to criminalise enforced disappearances but say much would depend on how the proposed legislation is implemented for ending the culture of impunity in the country.
سابق سینیٹر فرحت الله بابر کے مطابق کچھ ادارے جبری گمشدگیوں کو قانونی جواز فراہم کرنا چاہتے ہیں کیوں کہ اب یہ معاملہ زبان زد عام ہے اور ادارے چاہتے ہیں کہ ان کو لوگوں کو لاپتا کرنے کا سرٹیفکیٹ پارلیمنٹ سے مل جاے.
