On Tuesday Raza Khan’s brother revealed that Peace and civil society activist Raza Khan has been abducted by unknown persons from his residence in Lahore.
Khan, an active member of Lahore’s civil society and an activist of Aaghaz-e-Dosti, an organization that promotes friendly relations between the people of India and Pakistan, went missing since Sunday.
His brother Hamid Nasir Mehmood told reporters that he has filed an application in a local police station and appealed to the law enforcers to “take note” of his brother’s disappearance.
“My brother’s phone was switched off on December 2, after which I visited his home but he was not in his room,” Mehmood wrote in his application. “My brother has been abducted by an unidentified man, for unknown reasons,” he said.
As soon as news of Khan’s disappearance surfaced, many activists and human rights groups got active on social media demanding his safe release.
People who know Raza reportedly said that he was last seen in a heated public debate about extremism and the recent Faizabad sit-in by religious protesters.
His abduction was revealed a day after the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances told the Supreme Court that 1,498 cases of missing persons were still pending with it. There are 273 cases of persons missing from Punjab, 126 cases each from Sindh and Balochistan, 63 cases from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and 52 from Islamabad. The report said that over 3,000 cases were disposed of until November 30, with 2,257 people being traced since 2011.
Earlier this year, six bloggers and social media activists had been abducted, who were later released. After their release, they claimed on social media that they were detained by intelligence agencies.
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