Tag: enforced disappearances

Protesters demand earliest recovery of Raza Khan, other missing persons

LAHORE: Around 100 activists belonging to various human rights’ groups along with friends and family of Raza Mahmood Khan on Saturday set up a...

PTM holds protest rally resenting workers’ arrests

LAHORE: At least a hundred people including supporters of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), activists and civil society members on Monday held a protest rally...

1,640 people remained ‘missing’ by February: Ahsan Iqbal  

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Ahsan Iqbal on Friday informed the National Assembly that the number of missing persons in the country had increased to 1,640...

After journalist, teacher ‘disappeared’ in Badin

After the arrest of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz's (JSQM) former member Rafaqat Jarwar, his cousin, a government school teacher in Badin has been picked...

Farhatullah Babar for criminalising enforced disappearances

Says those challenging state's security narrative risk disappearance, but ones purveying hate speech go free ISLAMABAD: Former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf’s admission in...

Enforced disappearances: ‘Missing’ Baloch brothers returned to family

LAHORE: Two Baloch students who went ‘missing’ from Karachi’s Maddu Goth on Thursday have returned home on Saturday, confirmed a relative of the family. Mumtaz...

Two Baloch students go ‘missing’ in Karachi

KARACHI: Despite the uproar by parliament and the general public, the citizens keep on ‘disappearing’ mysteriously. Another Baloch student of Karachi University along with his...

Civil society to hold protest against missing persons

KARACHI: A student from the University of Karachi (UOK) recently went missing and his family has claimed that he was picked up by personnel of...

Time now to rid Pakistan of disappearances: HRCP

LAHORE: It was a high time Pakistan took robust measures to end the illegal practice of enforced disappearance and brought to justice the perpetrators,...