Pakistan has one of the worst records in the world for enforced disappearances.
Rights groups say thousands of political activists and human rights workers have been taken against their will and held in secret.
Al Jazeera has spoken to a woman whose father was seized by armed men last year.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports.
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