No letup in miseries of missing citizens in Pakistan
Javed Rana
Press TV, Islamabad
US military presence in Afghanistan has left behind far reaching spillover effects on neighboring Pakistan where incidents of enforced disappearances linked with the so-called war on terror continue to happen.
There is no letup in the incidents of enforced disappearances amid reports of torture and even killing of citizens in the past year in Pakistan.
Islamabad-based Defense of Human Rights group has disclosed in its annual report that as many as 130 people disappeared alone in 2020. Most of the incidents of enforced disappearances occurred in Pakistan’s northwestern bordering province with Afghanistan.
This is not all. The overall number of missing citizens remains alarmingly high since late 2001, when US-led NATO forces invaded neighboring Afghanistan.
The victim families have pleaded to the successive governments either to release their loved ones or prosecute them. Pakistan’s military-run secret services have been at the heart of allegations to have illegally detained citizens under the convenient cover of the so-called war on terror. Many of the citizens were also allegedly handed over to the US in the past.
Pakistan’s parliament provided immunity to secret services over their involvement in illegal detentions, torture and even killing of citizens in the past. Such controversial immunity, however, even did rectify intelligence agencies, which continue to carry out illegal detentions.
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