Families of missing persons hold protest
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Hundreds of family members of ‘missing persons’ protested outside the National Press Club in Islamabad on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances observed on August 30 every year.
The protesters carried placards and posters with photos of their loved ones who went missing from different parts of Pakistan. The protest was organised by a local not-for-profit, the Defence of Human Rights, which is spearheaded by Amina Masood Janjua, whose husband was reported missing in 2005.
According to the organizers, it had a record of 3,045 disappearances of which 18 new cases were reported this year. Janjua started the organisation in 2005, right after her husband Masood’s disappearance.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 31st, 2023.