Tag: Missing

A helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others, including two crew members, from Tawang has gone missing immediately after take-off...

The remains of an 11-year-old boy who went missing two months ago were recovered from a wheat field during the harvest. As per details,...

Interior Ministry on Wednesday sought complete details of the persons missing from across the country, from the police inspector generals and other authorities concerned...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general (DG) to submit a statement on two missing employees of the Malir District Courts by April 28. A division bench comprising Justices Maqbool Baqar and Ghulam Sarwar Korai was hearing the disappearance case of Shafqat Brohi and Agha Yasir, who were allegedly abducted on February 22.
After Brohi and Yasir went missing, SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam took suo motu notice of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that two missing people, Adnan and one other, were activists of a banned organisation Tehreek-e Islamia.
Appearing on notice in a case of two missing persons, Islamabad Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Binyamin contended before the court that Zahida Parveen, mother of Adnan, was also an important activist of the Tehreek-e-Islamia.
A three-member bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice

ISLAMABAD - Expressing dissatisfaction over the progress so far made in the recovery of missing persons, the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned the interior minister, provincial home ministers, home secretaries and inspectors general of police of all the provinces.
A three-member SC bench, comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, heard the cases of missing persons one by one. The court observed that parliament should legislate to

ISLAMABAD - I miss my father so much and I want him around but it has been ages since I saw him last, said little girl, Mehlab Baloch, with tearful eyes while narrating her ordeal as a kid of one of several missing persons from Balochistan. She was talking to Pakistan Today after a press conference on Wednesday held by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a sister organisation of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. The news conference had been arranged at the end

ISLAMABAD - During a hearing of the missing persons' case on Wednesday, Justice Javed Iqbal said it was government's responsibility and not Supreme Court's to recover these people whereas 222 missing persons had been traced due to the apex court's efforts.
According to a private TV, Justice Raja Fayyaz asked why this issue has not yet been raised in the parliament.
Moreover Justice Fayyaz ordered to submit complete details of the dead bodies found so far.
Defence of

KARACHI - The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) heard a total of eight cases of missing persons in the Pakistan Secretariat on Tuesday. Appearing before the commission, Abid, younger brother of Muhammad Arif Noor, who was allegedly killed after being abducted, repeated his previous statements saying that his brother was abducted by state-run intelligence agencies and was killed last month. Arif was an environment officer in the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA)

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought reply from the Interior Ministry about the whereabouts of missing families of Faizan and Faheem, victims of Qartaba Chowk killings. According to the petitioner, Malik Munsif Awan, these families went missing after they pardoned Raymond on March 16, 2011 after accepting blood money. On Tuesday, an Assistant Advocate General Wali Khan filed a written statement of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah about the status of missing

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued notices to the director generals of the Military Intelligence (MI), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Pakistan Rangers (Sindh), provincial Home secretary, police chief, Crime Investigation Department (CID) in charge, Station House Officer (SHO) and DIG Investigation of a Steel Town police station, in a case pertaining to the disappearance of a student from Karachi.
The SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and

ISLAMABAD - Senate Chairman Farooq Naek on Thursday announced to constitute a parliamentary committee to suggest ways and means for the recovery of missing persons and overcoming target killings, particularly in Balochistan.
He told the Senate on Thursday that the committee would be constituted in consultation with the leader of the house and leader of the opposition. The committee would discuss the issue faced by Balochistan in detail and give recommendations for its

ROME - More than 130 people were missing and at least 15 appeared to be dead after a boat carrying Eritrean and Somali refugees from Libya capsized south of Sicily early on Wednesday, coast guard officials said.
Rescuers picked up 47 people, including a number of women and children, after the boat, which left Libya two days ago, sank at about 4:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) 40 miles south of the island of Lampedusa. Fifteen bodies had been seen in the water by mid-morning, officials said

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of senators on Monday met protesting families of missing Balochi people outside the National Press Club. The senators included Abdul Rahim Mandokhel of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Zahid Khan of the Awami National Party, Fehmida Khan of the PML-N, Rahmatullah Kakar of the JUI-F, and Dr Malik Baloch of the National Party.
Expressing solidarity with relatives of disappeared persons, the senators said that lower and upper both the houses were raising

NEW DELHI - The problem of India's "missing girls" has been put under a harsh spotlight by new census data showing the ratio of female to male children at its lowest level since independence in 1947.
According to the latest national headcount, there are now just 914 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, down from a ratio of 927 for every 1,000 a decade ago. Despite India's steady economic rise in the past 10 years, the figures show that the social bias against having

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered all provincial inspectors general of police to submit a comprehensive report on progress made so far in recovering the missing persons within a fortnight.
A three-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali was hearing a suo motu case coupled with various pleas for the recovery of hundreds of missing persons, allegedly abducted by intelligence agencies.
Appearing on

LAHORE - The Punjab home secretary told the court in a written reply on Monday in connection with the hearing of a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of the families of Faizan and Faheem, the two men killed by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis, that the Punjab government was completely unaware of the families' whereabouts and suggested that the Lahore High Court ask the government about the allegedly missing families.The reply surprised many in the