India, Nov. 1 -- Several rights groups, including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), are demanding the release of Ghani Aman Chandio, whose alleged enforced disappearance in the South Asian country has triggered a massive social media backlash.

The Balochistan Post, quoting an eyewitness account, said Chandio was abducted from the Memona Hospital on Shahrah-e-Quaideen, near Tariq Road, on October 28, where he had brought his infant daughter for treatment.

Witnesses told the news portal that a group of armed men in civilian clothes, allegedly accompanied by paramilitary Rangers personnel, entered the hospital, seized mobile phones, destroyed CCTV footage, and blindfolded Chandio before taking him away in front of his family....