Thanks to Dr. @ShireenMazari1, the PM is advised to sign International Convention on Enforced Disappearances. Last two civilian governments were not allowed to sign it though.
However, Pakistan might not sign the provisions that allow 1/n
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However, Pakistan might not sign the provisions that allow 1/n
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...families of disappeared persons to file complaints to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances formed under this Convention; mandates the Committee to consider the comokaints; and empowers the Committee to hold visits to the country in question. Also, Article 6(2) of the 2/n
Convention says that no order from any authority - civil or military - can be invoked to justify an enforced disappearance. That might also be the problem for a state that proudly carries the ghastly military courts as a badge of honour. 3/n
So even if Pakistan becomes a state party on the Convention, there is little hope that the enforced disappearances can be halted in our country. But we shall at least have a legal framework of the civilian authorities are allowed to bring one. For this kind of.... 4/n
Legal framework, one must acknowledge the efforts of Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar of #PPP who chairs Senate's Human Rights Committee. He has been after it for last few months. And before him, the proposal was spearheaded by the stalwarts like @FarhatullahB @a_siab and Raza Rabbani.
Salute to all of these lawmakers who have been continuously raising it. Sometimes at great personal cost.
