Geneva, Dec. 10 -- : UN human rights experts have raised concerns about the scourge of enforced disappearances and torture in Pakistan, calling on the Government to uphold its human rights obligations by initiating prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into such acts.
The experts highlighted the government's failure to fully investigate the case of human rights defender Idris Khattak who was taken into custody by Pakistani Military Intelligence on 13 November 2019 and held incommunicado for over seven months.
In June of this year, authorities acknowledged his detention, but he continues to be deprived of his most basic rights.
They urged Pakistan, which was re-elected to the 47-member Human Rights Council in October, to lead by e...