{"id":6544,"date":"2016-11-04T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:52:05","slug":"wahid-baloch-disappearance-senate-body-refers-case-to-nchr-after-hrcp-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/wahid-baloch-disappearance-senate-body-refers-case-to-nchr-after-hrcp-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahid Baloch disappearance: Senate body refers case to NCHR after HRCP briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahore<\/strong>, November 4:<\/strong> The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has referred the case of suspected enforced disappearance victim, Abdul Wahid Baloch, to the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR).<\/p>\n

The Senate committee had requested the HRCP team to brief it on a fact-finding conducted in the case by HRCP\u2019s Sindh chapter.<\/p>\n

Abdul Wahid Baloch, a social activist, had been picked up from near Superhighway toll plaza in Karachi on 26 July, 2016.<\/p>\n

After a brief discussion, the senators made the following recommendations:<\/p>\n

(1) the Senate should approach the government to present Wahid Baloch in a court of law; (2) the provincial government should be urged become a party to the case before the court; (3) report of the Senate committee should be pursued; (4) the anti-torture bill passed by the Senate should be adopted by the National Assembly as well; and (5) Pakistan should sign the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.<\/p>\n

The Committee thereafter referred the case to Justice (r) Ali Nawaz Chohan, the NCHR chairperson, who also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n

Zohra Yusuf
\n<\/strong>Chairperson<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>