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Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to end the practice of enforced disappearances, ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which will be observed tomorrow, Saturday 30 August.
In a statement issued by its South Asia Regional Office, Amnesty said that “teachers, students, labourers, minors, people with disabilities and activists” have all been forcibly disappeared in Pakistan, leaving families with unanswered questions and unresolved grief.
The rights group criticised Pakistan’s legal system for failing to provide truth or justice, warning that impunity has allowed the practice to persist for decades.
Amnesty called on Pakistani authorities to:
- End enforced disappearances immediately;
- Disclose the fate and whereabouts of all missing persons;
- Hold perpetrators accountable.
Enforced disappearances remain a major human rights concern in Pakistan, particularly in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where rights groups say thousands of cases have been documented. Families of the missing continue to stage protests, demanding justice and accountability.
