COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal is heading the two-member commission for missing persons constituted by the Ministry of Interior on the Supreme Court’s directions. Former inspector general police Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Sharif Virk is also a member.

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMISSION

“It is high time that all the stakeholders (Ministries of Interior, Defence, Law & Human Rights in the Federal Government, all Provincial Governments, Armed Forces – ISI, MI and Frontier Corps) should sit together and evolve a comprehensive mechanism in the light of recommendations made by the Commission or as the case may be to eliminate the menace of ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE.”

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

Enforced Disappearance/Missing Person means such person as has been picked up/taken into custody by any Law Enforcing/Intelligence Agency, working under the civilian or military control, in a manner which is contrary to the provisions of the law. The persons, who have gone missing in cases of kidnapping for ransom, personal enmity or on their own, do not fall within the ambit of the Enforced Disappearances (ED).