RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor on Friday said that the responsibility of all missing persons does not lie with the state as many such individuals are either involved with militants in conflict zones or have been killed fighting against the state. “Our hearts go with the families of missing persons being Pakistanis. However, we must realise that not every person missing is attributable to the state,” the ISPR DG said in his meeting with Defence of Human Rights Chairperson Amina Janjua on Friday. Discussing the issue of missing persons, he said that individuals under state custody were being treated according to the law whereas many had joined militant organisations such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan and other conflict zones, according to the ISPR. “She posed full confidence in the state for getting the issue a logical closure,” the statement concluded.

Source: Pakistan Today July 05, 2019 14:26 UTC