Tag: missing persons

SHC issues notices over missing persons

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notice to inspector general of police (IGP) Sindh, director general (DG) Sindh Rangers, Home Department of...

SHC judge warns may jail police over sluggish inquiry in missing...

The Sindh High Court's (SHC) Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over police reports regarding missing persons and said that if progress in...

SHC stops IGP from transferring IO of missing persons case

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday heard a set of petitions pertaining to recovery of more than 50 missing persons as it...

PM advised to sign Convention for Enforced Disappearances: minister

Human Rights Minister of Pakistan Shireen Mazari has revealed that Prime Minister Imran Khan has been advised to sign the International Convention for the...

SHC seeks progress report in recovery of missing persons

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday sought a progress report within a month from Sindh police and law enforcement agencies pertaining to recovery...

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...

Inquiry commission on missing persons disposes-off 3,555 cases ...

ISLAMABAD: The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, Islamabad has disposed off 3,555 cases out of 5,423 cases up to September 30 this year. A...

12 missing persons belonging to MQM-P return

Faisal Sabzwari says recoveries resulting due to MQM-P-PTI dialogue  After the coming of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) into power, the missing political workers of Mutahidda...

Eight people missing from various areas return home after months of...

KARACHI: Police on Thursday informed the Sindh High Court that eight people who had been missing from various areas of Karachi have returned home after...

PTI govt wants review of IHC verdict despite promises to help...

LAHORE: The incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has decided to pursue an appeal against a landmark verdict of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) regarding...

SHC terms police reports regarding missing persons ‘unsatisfactory’

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday declared that reports presented by police regarding missing persons were 'unsatisfactory'. The SHC directed authorities to initiate...

Eight missing persons in Balochistan return

As much as eight persons returned to Panjgur and Gawadar three years after they had gone missing, according to officials. Officials also said that seven...

Missing persons or forced disappearances, asks Reham Khan

Tweets about missing Balochs, Pashtuns and Sindhis   Reham Khan has asked the government to work on the grave issue of missing persons. In a video posted...

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...

CJP seeks recovery of missing persons: report

Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has sent applications seeking recovery of missing persons to the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. According to...

Commission chief plays down enforced disappearances

--Justice (r) Javed Iqbal says missing persons issue 'has always been politicised', 'situation not as bad as it's made to sound' --Admits no govt in...

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...