Zeenat Shahzadi Remains Missing

The 24-year-old journalist and activist Zeenat Shahzadi remains missing. After disappearing on her way to work in August 2015, all attempts to learn of her whereabouts have failed. Losing hope, her younger brother committed suicide on March 24, 2016. Prior to her disappearance, Shahzadi was pursuing the safe recovery of a young Indian engineer arrested

Conspiracy Against Pakistan

Pakistan was subjected to an international conspiracy in 1971. India supported by former Soviet Union hatched the gory plan of cutting Pakistan into two and creating Bangladesh. India had been working upon East Bengal since 1948 with the aim of subverting the Bengalis and poisoning their minds against people of West Pakistan through an orchestrated

Rule of Law & Missing Persons

Judiciary observes meekly as Rangers produce Saeed Baloch eight days after disappearance. After keeping prominent Pakistan fisher folk leader and front line activist Saeed Baloch incommunicado in illegal and arbitrary detention for eight days, the Pakistan Rangers dramatically produced him in court on January 26, 2016. Earlier, the Rangers had denied that Saeed was in

Article on Balochistan That Led to New York Time’s Reporter Declan Walsh Expulsion

The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces are bruised and swollen. Flesh is sliced with knives or punctured with drills;

Time to End Disappearances in Pakistan

Many have been dismayed over the authorities ordering the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to cancel a discussion on Balochistan on April 9, 2015. It is unfortunate that this has happened on a democratic government’s watch. “The cancellation order raises many questions: why should our students not be able to discuss and listen to

Where Has the Indian National, Nehal Hamid Ansari, Vanished?

Fauzia Ansari, mother of Indian national Nehal Hamid Ansari who is currently missing in Pakistan, has appealed to Indian Premier Narendra Modi to intervene and secure her son’s release. Ansari who went missing in the northwestern Pakistani district of Kohat in 2012 was taken away by personnel of intelligence agencies from a police station before

Pakistan’s Judges & Military Clash Over Rule Of Law

Mohabat Shah has stood silently before the bench at Pakistan’s Supreme Court innumerable times now during the past six months. Shah’s four-year search for his son, Yasin, has come down to a handful of court hearings that are testing the power of Pakistan’s civilian government over its military. The outcome of the legal tussles could

Balochistan: Where is the Rule of Law?

The mass grave found at Tootak village in district Khuzdar, Balochistan, is unprecedented in Pakistan’s history. At least in the history of what we now call Pakistan. Family members gathered around the grave but the police and other security forces refused them permission to try and identify the bodies and baton charged the people to

Missing Persons March Threatened

The long marchers are threatened by the ISI to stop their march or they would be severely dealt with The participants of the long march from Karachi to Islamabad for the recovery of Baloch missing persons are facing threats from the notorious intelligence agency, the ISI. The marchers have been threatened not to enter Punjab

Why did the Foreign Minister shy away from the issue of Balochistan in her address to the United Nations?

by Stewart Sloan In her presentation to the UN Human Rights Council at the Universal Periodic Review the Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar painted a rosy picture of the progress that Pakistan has made over the past four years. However, it was what Khar did not talk about that raised the ire of her audience

“If Your Child Disappeared, What Would You Do?”

The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concludes its official visit to Pakistan A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concluded its ten-day official visit to Pakistan. The visit took place from 10 to 20 September 2012. The delegation of the Working Group was composed of Mr. Olivier

Solutions To Resolve the Balochistan Impasse

HRCP’s Findings In many fundamental respects the situation had not changed in Balochistan since HRCP’s last fact-finding mission to the province in 2011. Enforced disappearances continued in Balochistan as did dumping of bodies and impunity for the perpetrators. Frontier Corps and intelligence agencies were generally believed to be involved in enforced disappearance of people. In