On Monday, Amnesty International called on Pakistani authorities to cease detaining suspected militants for years without charge or trial, calling the practise “abhorrent.”
The rights group highlights the challenges experienced by families of the vanished in gaining information about their incarcerated relatives in a report titled “Living Ghosts.” Hundreds of Pakistani human rights advocates, activists, students, and journalists have gone missing since the start of the US-led war on terror, according to the report.
