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Missing persons issue: UN delegation arrives in Pakistan

Dunya News

A five-member UN delegation arrived in Pakistan on Sunday to discuss the issue of missing persons.

According to UN spokesperson, the experts’ delegation would collect information about the missing persons and would review the measures taken by the government for the recovery of the missing persons. The delegation would stay in Pakistan till September 20.The UN spokesperson further told that the delegation headed by Olivier de Frouville, the Chair-Rapporteur at United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) would hold meetings with the federal and provincial government authorities, representatives of civil society and family members of the missing persons.The delegation would submit its final report to United Nations Human Rights Council till 2013.In February this year, a WGEID’s annual report on Pakistan had voiced concern over the abductions of the civilians in Balochistan and other parts of the country.