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Washington —  They’ve been waiting for years, sometimes decades, not knowing if their loved ones – victims of enforced disappearances in South Asia – are dead or alive. The uncertainty over their fate gnaws, yet it also keeps them going. Farzana Akhtar’s husband, Parvez Hossain, was taken by Bangladeshi ...

Balochistan , May 5 :People held a rally against the enforced disappearances of Hafiz Tayyab and numerous other missing people in the Khuzdar district of Pakistan’s Balochistan on Saturday, The Balochistan Post reported. During the rally, protesters called for action and the safe recovery of all missing persons from ...

US Congressman Brad Sherman on Friday raised the issue of kidnappings by criminals, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and imprisonment of women by authorities Published Date - 10:10 AM, Fri - 15 September 23 ANI Photo Washington: US Congressman Brad Sherman on Friday raised ...

Quetta November 19 (ANI): Pakistan's defence forces have been conducting counter-insurgency operations, specifically targeting Balochistan Liberation Army members, in the Bolan area in the Kacchi district of Balochistan. Cases of physical intimidation and enforced disappearances of the local Baloch population have significantly increased even as the offensive against ...

Beijing , October 9 (ANI): Baloch National Movement Germany has organised a protest in Germany against the enforced disappearances of Baloch people by the Pakistan Army including the recently abducted Faheem Baloch. The protest was held on October 8 in Berlin. Asghar Ali, the President of the BNM Germany ...

Former MoS Bushan Lal Dogra posing with PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and other senior party leaders after rejoining the party. Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Dec 23: Former Chief Minister and president Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti today said that peace cannot be enforced but established by understanding the core problem ...

ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International has asked Pakistani authorities to end the practice of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, underscoring in a report titled ‘Living Ghosts’ that was released on Monday the mental, physical and socio-economic impact of illegal abductions by security agencies on the “missing” people’s families. ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Human rights group Amnesty International has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy, as it releases a new briefing documenting the effect of such illegal abductions on the families of those who go missing. The briefing, ...

ISLAMABAD - Authorities in Afghanistan on Saturday enforced an indefinite nighttime curfew across most of the country as government forces struggle to curb Taliban advances. The Islamist insurgent group has made rapid battlefield gains in recent weeks, bringing it close to capital cities of all 34 Afghan provinces and ...

Bed Capacity, Oxygen Supply augmented in Health Institutions 500 bed hospital being set up by DRDO shortly Community Triage Centres to be started SRINAGAR: Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Mohammed Aijaz Asad Tuesday said that district administration is working on war footing basis to break the chain of transmission of corona ...