The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has turned off the street lights at the camp organised by Defence of Human Rights at the Red Zone to by the relatives of the missing persons.
According to details, the street lights in the Parade Ground were switched off which add to the miseries of families of missing persons while lights in the surrounding areas were functional.
The focal person at the camp, Amna Janjua, said that despite everything going against them they would not give up their struggle till the release of every single missing person.
“We have been using generator for lighting the camp and other activities,” said the camp organisers. For showing solidarity with the missing persons, 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.
He said unknown people had picked the citizens and no one knew about their whereabouts.
The sit-in of relatives of missing persons led by Amina that started on Wednesday, has so far been joined by political leadership of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the PML-N, who have also unanimously decided to convene an all-parties conference on February 28 in Islamabad to pressurise the government to resolve the issue.
