Pakistan: Two political activists disappeared in Pakistan

Index Number: ASA 33/012/2009
Date Published: 4 December 2009
Categories: Pakistan

Aakash Mallah, Vice Chairman of the Sindh nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), and JSQM activist Noor Mohammad Khaskheli, were abducted on 30 October 2009, in Sindh province, south-eastern Pakistan. Local sources believe the two men were subjected to enforced disappearances by government security officials. They could be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.