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Families of Shia missing persons hold protest against Pak govt's role in e
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], April 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Shia missing persons and families held a sit-in protest against the Imran Khan government's involvement in the rising cases of enforced disappearances in the country.
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Pak court slams Imran Khan govt for lack of interest in missing persons' c
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 24 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh High Court has reprimanded the Imran Khan government for showing disinterest in the cases of missing persons and deplored that no legislation had so far been made against enforced disappearances.
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Nationwide protest planned in Pakistan for recovery of Shia 'missing' pers
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Pakistan's Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Shia missing persons and families of enforced disappearance has called for a nationwide protest from April onwards if their family members are not recovered by the end of this month.
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Balochistan: Land of enforced disappearances
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 3 (ANI): There are many heartbreaking stories of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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Germany: Free Balochistan Movement stage protest against enforced disappea
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Frankfurt [Germany], March 3 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement Germany Branch organised a protest in front of the Pakistani Consulate in Frankfurt to express solidarity with the families of the state victims of enforced disappearance in Balochistan and to inform the international communit
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Baloch activists hold protest in solidarity with families whose members su
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands] March 2 (ANI): Baloch political activists organised a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam to show their solidarity with the families whose members have been subject of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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'Plight of missing persons have increased': NGO highlights issue of enforc
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), an NGO, had a virtual meeting with the United Nations Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances, wherein they agreed to make a more concerted efforts to raise the International Community's understanding of the
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Speak to relatives of Baloch missing persons: Maryam Nawaz asks Pak PM
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 18 (ANI): Amid the growing atrocities against the minority communities of Pakistan, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to speak to the relatives of the Baloch missing persons who are protesting in Islamabad against the various
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US congressman supports 'Long Walk' organized by Sindhi minorities over en
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): US congressman, Brad Sherman on Sunday supported "Long Walk' or "Long March" from New York City to Washington DC by Sindhi Foundation, covering a distance of more than 350 miles on foot to draw attention to issues like enforced disappearances, the plight o
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Pakistan state structure is 'anti-people', unresponsive to voices of oppre
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], December 14 (ANI): Pakistan's constitutional state structure is "quite anti-people" and it is unresponsive to the voice of oppressed people of the country, Pakistani poet and human rights advocate, IA Rehman said, while adding that enforced disappearance and forceful con
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UN experts raise concerns over scourge of enforced disappearances and tort
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 10 (ANI): UN human rights experts have raised concerns about the scourge of enforced disappearances and torture in Pakistan, calling on the Government to uphold its human rights obligations by initiating prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into suc
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Baloch professor goes missing; Another incident of enforced disappearance?
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Khuzdar [Balochistan], November 29 (ANI): A Baloch professor Liaquat Sani Bangulzai has been "adducted" while travelling to Khuzdar district in Balochistan along with two other university teachers on Saturday, officials said.
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