Recently Sindh Court asked the authorities and government to create a website about missing persons to provide detailed information about the missing persons from all over Pakistan.
On Tuesday the senate unanimously accepted a bill on citizens ‘Right to Information’ which will replace Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002.
The recent bill mentions that on request of applicant the relevant institution will have to file a written report within three days detailing the information of any missing person. There are thousands persons missing in Pakistan who were forcefully disappeared in the past many years, human rights calls them enforced disappearances.
The bill also makes record older than 20 years a public record to which access will be provided, and for information about the past 20 years a request can be filed to a commission consisting members from civil society, bureaucracy and judiciary.
Chairman of the committee Senator Farhatullah Babar said that previously people were abducted on suspicion and no information was given for years, now it will not be possible and all institutions will be answerable to people.
Recently in Sindh High Court Justice Muhammad Farooq Shah passed similar remarks on missing persons case. He said some are half fried and some are full fried, half fried are appeared in courts while full fried end up in morgue.