Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has alleged that as per the United Nations only 50 cases of enforced disappearances have been reported from the Balochistan province.
The claim is incorrect.
In an interview to BBC Urdu on September 29, the caretaker prime minister said that as per the data of the United Nations’ (UN) sub-committee on enforced disappearances there are an estimated 50 disappeared citizens in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
“Enforced disappearances in Balochistan, according to a sub-committee of the United Nations, are around 50 [people], while in Indian-occupied Kashmir the number is around 8,000,” he alleged, when asked about missing persons in the country.
Kakar later added that the United Nations has set criteria to determine if a complaint qualifies as an enforced disappearance or not.
“Hence, [high figures of victims of enforced disappearances] can be used as a propaganda tool against state institutions,” he said.
The video has been viewed over 17,000 times to date, and the interview has been reported by all mainstream news outlets in the country.
The United Nations publicly available reports and the government’s own data belie the prime minister’s claim.
The UN’s sub-committee, the caretaker prime minister is referring to, is called the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), which is a body of independent experts who monitor the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced...
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