[The News (Pak)] Defence of Human Rights Pakistan Chairperson Amna Masood Janjua has said that the success of a US NGO in getting the names of the Bagram Airbase detainees published has established that the Foreign Ministry is "completely inefficient and insincere" in sorting out the issue of missing persons.
Talking to The News on Sunday, she said the list issued by the US Defence Department in response to a freedom of information lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was incomplete and neither contained parental nor nationality details of the detainees.
She said at the moment, it was the responsibility of the government and the Foreign Office to get completed the details of these detainees and all the others detained in innumerable detentions and prisons in Afghanistan.
| Please present a list of said detentions and prisons that they might be investigated by the proper authorities. Thank you. |
She said it was true that in the past, many Pakistanis went to Afghanistan with the nod of some institutions.
| Oh? Which institutions might those be? |
She said it should be understood that the Afghan war was over
| It is? Then why do the Taliban keep crossing the border in order to commit miscreancy? |
and there was no harm in making efforts to bring the detained Pakistanis back, most of whom had gone there with the consent of the institutions.
| The traditional Afghan method to achieve this particular objective is for the relatives to pay a large ransom to the local imprisoning organization. |
She said if the Foreign Ministry succeeded in getting the details of these detainees completed, the problem of missing persons could be resolved. On the other hand, the inefficiency of departments was at its peak on Sunday when various officials in different government departments were calling the media people and Amna Masood Janjua to know about the address of the website, which contained the list of the Bagram detainees. |