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Missing Pashtun leader found dead in Pakistan's Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], August 5 (ANI): In what appears to be yet another case of enforced disappearance in Pakistan, police on Thursday found a handcuffed body from Balochistan's Pishin district, local media has reported.
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Sri Lanka has world's 2nd-highest number of enforced disappearances: Right
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 5 (ANI): Sri Lanka has the world's second-highest number of enforced disappearances, as tens of thousands of people have "forcibly disappeared" over many decades, according to Amnesty International.
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Baloch citizens intensify protest against enforced disappearances by Pakis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], June 27 (ANI): The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has intensified protests across Europe to condemn forceful abductions of political activities by security forces in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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International Torture Day and Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 27 (ANI): International Torture Day is in support of victims of torture, where people around the globe express their solidarity and support with the hundreds and thousands of torture victims and their families throughout the world, who are also suffering in trauma.
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Pak's amendment bill on enforced disappearances inadequate to curb menace,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 26 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) secretary-general Farhatullah Babar has said that the recent bill introduced by the Imran Khan-led government to curb the practice of enforced disappearances would not end the menace as it requires further deliberation and am
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Baloch National Movement holds protest in London against enforced disappea
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 25 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Baloch National Movement (BNM) recently organised a protest in front of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's residence in London on the occasion of the 12-year enforced disappearance of Dr Deen Muhammad Baloch.
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Pakistan's opposition alarmed over disappearance of key rights bills
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition in the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature has expressed alarm over its key human rights (HR) bills disappearing in a black hole to emerge in the form of government bills.
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Mehul Choksi's legal team releases videos, photographs to prove he was kid
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 15 (ANI): As the controversy around fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi's disappearance from Antigua refuses to die down, a UK-based law firm looking after the case has released images and videos on Monday claiming that he was kidnapped from Antigua.
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'Enforced disappearances' on the rise in Pakistan's Balochistan province
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], June 14 (ANI): The cases of "enforced disappearances" are rising in Pakistan's Balochistan as 16 people were reportedly "abducted" by the country's security forces in the month of June alone, said the Balochistan Post.
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Flaws emerging in Mehul Choksi's abduction story
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
St. Johns [Antigua], June 10 (ANI): As the controversy around fugitive Indian diamantaire Mehul Choksi's disappearance in Antigua and his subsequent capture in Dominica deepens, new theories are arriving at a rapid pace over the reality of his alleged escape from prosecution.
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Amid human rights abuses by China, Australia's Uyghurs in despair over dis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], June 4 (ANI): As Beijing continues its human rights abuses against ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang, Uyghurs living in Australia are left in despair over the 'disappearance' of their relatives in China.
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MQM founder writes open letter to scribes of Pak's Punjab province, says t
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 31 (ANI): Founder and leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain on Monday wrote a letter to the journalists belonging to Pakistan's Punjab province amid the ongoing media curbs in the country.
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