Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Friday announced that his party would bring a resolution in the National Assembly for the recovery of the missing persons.
Nawaz visited a camp of families of missing persons at Parade Avenue to express solidarity with them. After consoling the families, Nawaz severely criticised the government for failing to hold those institutions accountable which were abducting people in violation of the country’s laws.
Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Senator Ishaq Dar were also present on the occasion.
He said the PML-N would continue its “jihad” until the missing persons were recovered. “The PML-N will continue raising the issue till missing persons’ recovery … we cannot tolerate this anymore … the democratic government is not controlling such tactics by some forces,” he said.
Nawaz said he had directed Nisar to move a resolution in the National Assembly in support of the missing persons’ case. “We and the nation will watch which parties dare oppose the resolution,” he said, adding that in Balochistan, the missing persons issue had become a trouble.
“I want to assure my brothers in Balochistan that we will raise our voice for them as well. We do not discriminate between the provinces,” the PML-N president said.
He said the PML-N could not see the plight of the families of around 1,000 missing persons from across the country, upon which Defence of Human Rights (DHR) Chairwoman Amina Masood Janjua told Nawaz that the total number of missing persons across the country was over 10,000.
