Thousands of men in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest region, have disappeared over the last two decades. Farhat Javed speaks to the mothers and daughters left behind.
In the last two decades thousands of men have disappeared in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest region. Activists and some of their families accuse the Pakistani authorities of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings. The government is fighting an insurgency in the region, but denies any involvement in the disappearances. It says some of the missing men have ed militant groups or have simply left the province.
Mutilated bodies have continued to turn up, including in mass graves.
Farhat Javed reports on Balochistan’s Women of the Vanished - the mothers and daughters left behind who are still searching for their missing loved ones.
Presenter: Farhat Javed, BBC Urdu
Producer: John Murphy, BBC Long Form Audio
Programme Co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman
Studio Mix: Nigel Appleton
Editor: Penny Murphy
(Image: Dr. Mahrang Baloch praying at the grave of her murdered father. Credit: Credit: BBC)
