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Resources
Denying the Undeniable: Enforced disappearances in Pakistan view details>>
Devoid of the Rule of Law: Pakistan's War on Terror view details>>
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances view details>>
Pakistan. Destroying Legality. view details>>
Healing wounds, mending scars view details>>
Did They Vanish in Thin Air? Vol 2 view details>>
Enforced disappearances Pakistan
| Numbers and Context |
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| UNWGEID Cases |
| 85 disappearances have been denounced, from which 8 have been discontinued and 77 remain outstanding. |
| NGOs Numbers |
| No conclusive figures. However some organisations have collected detailed data. Most notably Defence of Human Rights has collected data of 529 persons missing from 2003 until March 2008. By its own admission the list is not complete at all. In July 2008 Amnesty International reported Defence of Human Rights was representing 563 families of the disappeared. On disappearances in Balochistan alone Amnesty International in its report: "Denying the Undeniable" (July 2008) states: "The exact number of Balochs and Sindhis disappeared is not known. The HRCP has estimated that at least 600 persons have disappeared in Balochistan alone. Baloch groups put the number in the thousands, and the Pakistan Peoples Party Chief Minister for Balochistan, Nawab Aslam Raissani said that the Governor of Balochistan had been informed of 900 Baloch victims of enforced disappearance." |
| Context |
| Cases reported to the UNWGEID concerned supporters of the political party the Muhajir Qaomi Movement. Most of the other reported cases allegedly occurred in 1986 and between 1989 and 1991, and involved Afghan refugees in Pakistan, many with links to the Harakate Inghilabe Islamic party of Afghanistan.
Most enforced disappearances in Pakistan are caused by the US led 'war on terror' and a clampdown on Baloch and Sinshi nationalists. The NGOs report on Pakistan for the Universal Periodic Review under the UN Human Rights Council (period 2003 -2007) reports to have found complaints of thousands of involutary disappearances especially in Bulachistan and NWFP during 2005 and 2006. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against forced disappearances in early 2007 with almost 200 names from which the government reported the fate of 99 of them. In the same report it is noted that in late 2007 secret agencies continued to picking up people days after the Supreme Court urged locating the people missing. |
| Federations and Organisations | |
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| Organisation | Defence of Human Rights |
| Website | http://missinginpakistan.wordpress.com/ |
| Contact | Chairperson: Amina Masood Janjua Address: 40-c-1 Nagi road Westridge 1 Rawalpindi Tel: +92-301-5240550; +92-51-5511686 fax +92-51-5464805 E-mail: dhredupk@gmail.com; mrsjanjua@gmail.com |
| Focus | Enforced disappearances in Pakistan and enforced disappearances in the 'War on Terror'. |
| Organisation | Human Rights Commission Pakistan |
| Website | http://www.hrcp-web.org |
| Contact | e-mail: hrcp(at)hrcp-web.org |
| Focus | Human Rights in Pakistan |
| Organisation | Truth and Justice Commission-Pakistan |
| Website | |
| Contact | Old Civil Secretariat G.P.O. Box No. 56 Muzaffarabad A.K. (Pakistan) 13100 Tel. (0092) 58-81043464 Fax (0092) 58-81049546 Email: hrm_org@yahoo.com farooq_825@hotmail.com |
| Focus | Human Rights in Pakistan |
| Member of | Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) |
| Treaties | |
|---|---|
| Treaty | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| Status | Ratified |
| Treaty | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| Status | Ratified |
| Treaty | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| Status | Signed |
| Treaty | Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict |
| Status | Signed |
| Jurisprudence |
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