Islamabad: Amnesty International has asked Pakistani authorities to end the practice of forced disappearance as a state policy tool, underlines in a report entitled ‘Life Ghost’ which was released on Monday, the mental, physical and socio-economic impact of illegal abduction by security.
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Forced disappearance – which is known in Pakistan as a missing person – is an action that is widely used in many countries that allow security institutions to capture, hold or kidnap someone without His will, and deny information about his fate.
Rejection to acknowledge the fate of those kidnapped is a crime under international law.
Earlier this month, the Pakistani National Assembly issued a bill that, for the first time in the country’s history, was defined and criminalized the practice of forced disappearances.
Amnesty International, however, shows that the reform proposed to forbid and end the practice of not maintaining international human rights law and best practices.
In the report based on interviews with family members “whose fate is still unknown after they are kidnapped by Pakistani security services”, Amnesty said the practice violated human rights and had victims of their mental and physical health status, their security, and caused stigma and social isolation.
“Forced disappearances are cruel practices that have caused unsolicited pain in hundreds of families in Pakistan for the past two decades,” said Rehab Mahamoor, Amnesty’s Acting South Asia researcher.
“Above countless sadness loses people who are loved and have no idea of ​​their existence or safety, families bear the other long-term effects, including poor health and financial problems,” he said.
Forced disappearances have been reported since the mid-1980s in Pakistan, this tool became more used since the “war against terror” which began after the US invasion to Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
The investigation commission was enforced.
Removal said in its monthly October report that it has documented 8,191 cases of forced disappearance, where 2,274 remained unresolved, because it was founded in 2011.
About 37 of these cases occurred in October this year.
Intelligence agencies have targeted human rights defenders, political activists, students and journalists, and the fate of hundreds of victims remained unknown, according to the Amnesty report.
Among the people interviewed by The Right Watchdog was inaam Abbasi, which was held for 10 months after his kidnapping in August 2017.
The physical torture during captivity left him with a number of health problems, including chronic joint pain, high blood pressure and press-ordered stress disorder (PTSD) that is often triggered by routine things like the sound of doorbells.
“I believe that someone comes to take me away again,” INAAM said as quoted.
Zakir Majeed, an activist Ethnic Baloch student in the southwest city of Quetta, was kidnapped on June 8, 2009, when he was with two friends.
Amnesty quoted Majeed sisters said that he was threatened “with the same fate as his brother if he didn’t stay silent”.
In three cases, according to the report, the children of “missing people” must leave school because of losing family income.
Family members report health problems related to stress such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and gastrointestinal diseases.