Over the last few decades Pakistan has seen several thousands of its citizens go “missing” — a euphemism for enforced disappearances believed to have been carried out by the Pakistani state. Individuals have been targeted across the country, hauled away with no recourse to due process. In many cases, there is no news of their whereabouts for months, even years.
Even though the Supreme Court of Pakistan has repeatedly criticised this practice, the Pakistani deep state has consistently refused to abandon it. Pakistan’s sub-nationalities – Baloch, Sindhi, Muhajir, Pashtun – have faced the brunt of this, though so have political cadres and civil society activists.
Just recently former Senator and lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking the latter to direct provincial governments to provide lists of missing persons and identify those behind their disappearance.
As an editorial in Dawn stated, “It is hoped this effort succeeds where several past endeavours have failed, including the SC-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. It is crucial for the state to investigate such cases, especially as ‘short-term disappearances’ have picked up pace over the recent past.”
As Dawn noted, while the focus today is on PTI workers and leaders, “the missing persons of Balochistan, KP and other areas should not be forgotten. The interim prime minister recently told a foreign media outlet that there were only 50 missing people in Balochistan according to UN figures. This is a classic example of denialism that nearly all ruling set-ups have indulged in, for, according to the missing persons’ commission’s own figures, the number of the missing from Balochistan is over 450. 카지노 사이트 는 룰렛, 블랙잭, 바카라 및 라이브 딜러 포커에서 행운을 시험할 수 있는 라이브 카지노의 세계로 안내합니다. 집을 떠나지 않고도 실제 카지노의 흥미진진한 분위기를 즐겨보세요. 우리는 신규 플레이어에게 최고의 플레이 조건과 넉넉한 보너스를 제공합니다. 지금 바로 게임 모험에 참여하고 시작하세요! It is these attitudes that must change for enforced disappearances to end.”
