report in Sri Lanka Mirror, Dec 27, 2023A complaint has been lodged with the CID that the chief custodian of the Ruhunu Kataragama Devalaya – T. Somipala, has been missing for 02 weeks. The complaint, lodged on Dec. 22 by a grandson of Mr. Somipala, has also noted that the disappearance affects the activities of the Devalaya while putting the artifacts at the location at risk. It is reported that the issues had arisen due…
Posts tagged as “missing”
by Naeem Asghar in The Express Tribune, December 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Authorities claim to have released all Baloch protesters who arrived in Islamabad last week to highlight the issue of missing persons but were rounded up in a crackdown. However, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC)—the protest organizers—disputes this, asserting that Islamabad Police have failed to release all detained protesters despite the three-day deadline’s expiration. The BYC announced that people in Balochistan will stage demonstrations and strikes…
by Arifa Noor in Dawn, Dec 26th, 2023The writer is a journalist.EARLY on Sunday, there were few people in the green areas in front of the Islamabad Press Club. The rows of quietly seated protesters were missing as were the cameras and visitors. The camp was just waking up. The young men were busy fixing the tent, straightening out rugs, etc. One of them carried away a ring-light and stand used with phone cameras. Most…
by Durgalal KC in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 12, 2023Suresh Kumar Oli, a goat herder from Pahruwa in ward 15 of Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City, Dang, was detained by security personnel on December 22, 2002, under the suspicion of being a Maoist rebel. He was 31 years old. Suresh’s wife, Devisara Oli, recalls her husband being booked for questioning by the police on that fateful Sunday. “He never returned. I still wait for him after all…
report in Dawn, November 24th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A ministerial committee formed on the issue of enforced disappearance of Baloch students said in a report on Thursday that the Missing Persons Cell at the interior ministry would submit its report in the next committee meeting. The federal government had formed a committee, comprising interior minister, defence minister and the law minister. The commission had recommended that the missing persons should be recovered and produced before the courts.…
by Shahin Rao in The Nation, Nov 23, 2023ISLAMABD – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday summoned Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, defence minister and others to appear in person on November 29 in a case related to the missing Baloch students. A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani conducted hearing of a case regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry directed them to appear before…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, November 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Monday reviewed cases of enforced disappearances at a meeting of the committee of ministers. Separately, Chinese ambassador to Pakistan called on Mr Bugti in Islamabad on Monday. According to the interior ministry’s media wing, caretaker Defence Minister retired Lt Gen Anwar Ali Haider and Law Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam also attended the meeting. A policy formulation on the issue was…
Report in Dawn, Sept 21st, 2023LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti on Wednesday told Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Anwar that he had started losing his patience with the failure of the police to recover alleged missing anchorperson Imran Riaz. “Five months have passed and you have now begun to try my patience,” the chief justice said to the IGP during the hearing of a petition seeking recovery of the alleged…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, September 1st, 2023QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal has announced that his party would contest the upcoming elections on the slogan of “recovery of missing persons”. He lamented that despite raising the issue at all forums, nothing was done by the government to resolve it. Speaking at a seminar, organised by the ‘Voice for the Baloch Missing Persons’ to observe the International Day of the Victims of…
By Arfa Feroz Zake & Awaid Yousafzai in The News, August 30, 2023A special court established under the Official Secrets Act Wednesday extended Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s judicial remand by 14 days in the case pertaining to the missing cipher — a classified state document, sources told Geo News. The court’s decision, issued by Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, came after its hearing took place at the Attock District Jail following approval by the…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, August 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: As a local magistrate on Sunday remanded PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the FIA custody for a day in the ongoing cipher case, former finance minister and erstwhile PTI leader Asad Umar went ‘missing’ from the federal capital. There were speculations that Mr Umar had also been taken into custody in connection with the same case, with media reports and party leaders insisting that he…