Calls for investigation of Pakistani "disapearances"

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Updated July 25, 2008 10:27:38

Human rights group, Amnesty International is pressing the new Pakistani government to launch investigations into the disappearances of missing people who are thought to have been imprisoned without charged by security agencies.

Previous investigations into the dissapearances were stopped after Pakistan's Supreme Court judges were sacked by President Pervez Musharaff last year.

Presenter: Girish Sawlani
Speakers: Iqbal Haider - co chair person - human rights commission of pakistan; Sohail Warraich, Pakistan researcher, Amnesty International

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