Tag: enforced disappearances
Four Shia ‘missing’ persons returned home
--ISPR DG says army 'shares the pain of families of missing persons'
KARACHI: Four people, who had gone ‘missing’ four years ago, have returned home, said...
Sit-in against enforced disappearances continues outside president’s house
A sit-in protest outside President Arif Alvi's residence in Karachi against the enforced disappearances across the country has entered the fifth day.
According to a...
Karachi reporter ‘spirited away’
A young reporter Matloob Husain Mosavi, who works for Daily Jang, was reportedly picked up by plain-clothed law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in Karachi on...
Bill declaring enforced disappearances criminal offence sent to Law Ministry: Mazari
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari has informed that the Ministry of Human Rights has drafted a bill through amendments in the...
Enforced disappearances to be criminalised, claims Shireen Mazari
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government is going to crimminalise enforced disappearances by amending the...
Law criminalising enforced disappearances to be drafted soon: Farhatullah Babar
PPP leader says govt had no idea at that time detention centres would become Abu Ghraib prisons of Pakistan
DHRPK Chairperson Amina Masood Janjua says...
State agencies involved in enforced disappearances: Farhatullah Babar
ISLAMABAD: Former senator and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Farhatullah Babar has said that after General (r) Musharraf's admission of secretly handing over hundreds of...
3,519 missing persons cases disposed of till July
ISLAMABAD: The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances disposed of 3,519 missing persons cases till July 2018, said a report.
The commission, chaired by Justice (r)...
Number of missing persons witnesses an unusual surge
---59 more cases received in August
ISLAMABAD: The missing persons’ commission has registered an alarming rise in the number of missing Pakistani citizens as 59...
HRCP asks govt to criminalise enforced disappearances
LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reiterated the need for the government to criminalise the enforced disappearances.
In a statement issued on Friday...
Social activist Amanullah Chandio, son, nephew go ‘missing’
HYDERABAD: Unidentified men took away renowned literary and social figure Amanullah Chandio, his 17-year-old son Saifullah Chandio and 20-year-old nephew Gulshan from their residence.
Amanullah is the father...
IHC enforced dissapearences verdict challenged by ministries
ISLAMABAD: A verdict handed down by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) regarding enforced disappearances was challenged by the ministries of interior and defence, and the capital's...
Enforced disappearance is a heinous offence, says IHC
ISLAMABAD: Enforced disappearance is a "heinous offence" and officials who perpetrate the crime should be "proceeded against for misconduct besides criminal proceedings", according to a...
Army denies involvement in abduction of Gul Bukhari
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan army on Saturday denied any involvement in the abduction of a writer and rights activist who was kidnapped for several hours this...
Founded to protest Pakistan ‘disappearances’, PTM now sees supporters go missing
KARACHI: As they were about to enter the office of the Commissioner of Karachi for a meeting to discuss a rally planned in Pakistan’s...
Iranian visitor allegedly goes ‘missing’ in Lahore
LAHORE: An Iranian national, Mahmood Zohrabi has allegedly disappeared in Lahore on Monday, a local media house reported.
According to police sources, he arrived in...
Farhatullah Babar predicts nationwide movement against enforced disappearances
ISLAMABAD: Farhatullah Babar said on Thursday that protesting voices against the extra-judicial killings, mysterious disappearances of citizens and Guantanamo Bay-like centres in the tribal areas...
