Tag: Missing Persons

By Lateef Johar Baloch: Does anyone remember the mass graves with dozens of bodies that were discovered in Jan 2014, when PML-N was in power? But instead of investigating and carrying out the forensic procedures, the bodies were forcibly reburied.

Journalist Mudassar Naaru's mother, Rahat Mehmood, talks to Voicepk.net about how hollow every Eid feels since his disappearance four years ago, and her struggle to recover Sachal's father as well as the loved ones of other families of missing persons

Following the terrorist attack at Karachi University, Bebgar Imdad, a Baloch student, was picked up from the Punjab Univeristy hostels by security forces. Baloch students claim they are racially profiled in wake of such incidents.

A man named Asif bludgeoned his wife to death in Lodhran on Sunday, in a case of suspected 'honor killing'.

Police arrested one Sibtain Khan for opening fire on five Khawaja Siras in their home in Upper Channia, Mansehra district, before fleeing Sunday night. Four survivors are in critical condition despite emergency surgery.

Justice Amir Farooq of the IHC has directed the Federal Govt to enact legislature setting the minimum marriageable age for girls. For more human rights news, keep reading.

Naqeeb & Shafique, two businessmen hailing from Quetta were allegedly picked up by plainclothesmen 7 days ago & have not been seen since.

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

Activists say enforced disappearances make a strong resurgence in Pakistan as a government panel reports three times jump in new cases of missing persons in 2021

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.