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Relatives of Victims of Enforced Disappearances Protest in Pakistan

Ayesha Tanzeem

   ISLAMABAD - Teary-eyed Bibi Aleema recounts the night many years ago
   when a group of men, some of them in uniform, stormed her house in
   Quetta, Pakistan. They were there to take away her son, Mohammad
   Salman, a gardener at the courthouse.

   "I begged them not to take him," she says.

   For a year, her son was missing without a trace. One day, someone told
   her his body was lying in the hospital with a bullet wound. He left
   behind two sons and a daughter.

   Last year, her other son, Mohammad Hassan, a local health worker who
   had recently wed and had an infant son, went out shopping and was
   picked up.

   "We have no more bread winners. What do we do? Where do we go? I don't
   even have anyone to bury me now," she says.

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