KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Farhatullah Babar has said that the government is helpless in solving the issue of missing persons and Senate’s Human Rights Committee is equally hapless on this matter.
Talking to journalists after the meeting on Tuesday, he said that it was needed that the helpless and hapless should join hands and try to stop those powerful who were involved in missing persons’ case. Besides Senator Babar, Senator Nasreen Jalil, Senator Nisar Muhammad Khan, Sindh Police chief, the Rangers director general and the Sindh Home Affairs secretary attended the meeting.
The PPP lawmaker said that the committee had held its meeting in Karachi last year in September and also had some proposals to identify the individuals involved in missing persons’ case. “After one year, the committee members visited Karachi once again to find out progress in this case. It was found by the committee that no progress was made in this regard rather dozens more people have gone missing and the government does not have any explanation,” he said.
He said that the committee has further given list of the people gone missing during the last year. The committee instructed to furnish complete information regarding these missing persons. Committee’s Chairperson Senator Nasreen Jalil also handed over one more list of the missing persons to the authorities. Senator Babar said that it seems that there is a message for the Parliament because more persons have gone missing.
Senator Babar said that the biggest hurdle in solving this issue was that there was no identification of the people who are involve in these cases and no action has been taken against them. He said that it was unfortunate and sad that there has been no progress in the death of a political worker who died during detention.
The official said that he was unaware of the case as he has been posted recently. The committee last year had recommended inquiry into the death of the worker by another agency and not by the agency which had detained the victim and he died during that detention.
