Senate told: 5 thousand missing persons complaints received

The chairman of the Missing Persons Commission, retired justice Javed Iqbal, briefed the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on the issue and told lawmakers that at least 5,000 complaints were received and the commission has dealt with around 3,800.

He claimed that that the issue of missing persons “has always been politicised” and that the situation is “not as bad as it is made to sound.” However, people don’t agree with this notion because affected families have declared that enforced disappearance of their bread-earners was nothing but their economic genocide.
However, retired Judge Javed Iqbal said that Mama Qadeer — Leader of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) — had claimed that 40,000 people were missing, “and yet, to this day, we do not have any details regarding those cases”.
There has been an insurgency-like situation in Balochistan province and Deobandi terrorists of banned sectarian outfits also pose threat to the entire nation but it is saddening and amazing that Shia Muslims who have no record of any unlawful activities have also been subjected to enforced disappearance after having been rounded up illegally. Such Shia Muslims have not been affiliated with any banned outfit or ethnic group.
But the retired judge remained silent on this aspect of the gory situation during his briefing. Instead, he also claimed that no government in the past 15 years made an effort for the recovery of missing persons.