Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet a three-member delegation representing the families of the missing persons in the coming month of March, a statement issued by the Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) said on Saturday. Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari shared this statement on her official Twitter account after meeting the families staging a sit-in at the federal capital’s Express Chowk for recovery of their missing members. She told them that the prime minister will meet a three-member delegation, representing the families, in March and that she herself would arrange this meeting. “[However, prior to the meeting] they [the families] would hand over the list of missing persons to Dr Mazari so that their status could be ascertained and conveyed to the prime minister before the meeting with the families’ representative.”Also read: PM Imran resurrects bill on missing personsThe statement said the families requested the minister that priority should be given to recovery of the missing persons belonging to the 13 families present at the sit-in “and Dr Mazari noted the request”. “Half the peace comes when the families know that their loved-ones are alive and at a certain location,” the minister had quoted the prime minister as saying.

Source: The Express Tribune February 21, 2021 08:37 UTC