Missing persons (Pakistan)

Missing persons is the term used in Pakistan to refer to the ostensibly hundreds or thousands of people in Pakistan who have been forcefully disappeared. Reports of forced abductions by the Pakistani state first began arising in 2001, in the aftermath of the United States invasion of Afghanistan and the commencement of the US-led War on Terror.^[1] Many of the missing persons are activists associated with the secular Baloch nationalist and Sindhi nationalist movements^[1] that seek autonomy or secession from Pakistan.

People who have at any point gone missing

• Munir Mengal
• Allah Nazar Baloch
• Ghulam Mohammed Baloch (found dead in 2009, see also Turbat killings)
• Safdar Sarki
• Saud Memon
• Masood Janjua
• Hafiz Abdul Basit

See also

• Target killings in Pakistan

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Denying the Undeniable: Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan. Amnesty International Publications. 2008. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA33/018/2008/en/d3e8181d-631c-11dd-9756-f55e3ec0a600/asa330182008eng.html. 

Further reading

• Fisk, Robert (18 March 2010). "Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-into-the-terrifying-world-of-pakistans-disappeared-1923153.html. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Gall, Carlotta (19 December 2007). "Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/world/asia/19disappeared.html. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• "The unending ordeal of missing persons’ families". Dawn (newspaper). 25 July 2009. http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/14-the-unending-ordeal-of-missing-persons-families-zj-05. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Plett, Barbara (13 December 2006). "Painful search for Pakistan's disappeared". BBC News Online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6177057.stm. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Montero, David (6 September 2007). "Pakistan: Disappeared". PBS Frontline. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/09/pakistan_the_di.html. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Walsh, Declan (16 March 2007). "Without a trace". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/16/alqaida.pakistan. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• "Pakistan: Thousands of persons remain missing amid government inaction". Asian Legal Resource Centre. 27 August 2010. http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/hrc15/636/. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Garcia, J. Malcolm (October 2010). "The Missing". Guernica Magazine. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/2096/garcia_10_15_10/. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Masood, Salman (14 January 2007). "Relatives and rights group search for Pakistan's missing". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/world/asia/14iht-pakistan.4195692.html. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• "Pakistan families of missing pin hopes on Chaudhry". Agence France-Presse. 23 March 2009. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ha7ROudWaU_3JGR2zEP68CINmyLA. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• "Who took the ‘disappeared’ people?". Daily Times (Pakistan). 29 March 2007. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\29\story_29-3-2007_pg3_1. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• "Musharraf’s stance on disappearances is wrong: HRCP". Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. 28 April 2009. http://www.hrcp-web.org/showprel.asp?id=70. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 
• Khan, Ilyas (22 January 2007). "Pressure over Pakistan's missing". BBC news Online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6288647.stm. Retrieved 4 December 2010. 

See also

• Forced disappearance
• Enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka
• Human rights in Pakistan
• Balochistan conflict