Pakistan urged to find missing detainees

Human rights group Amnesty tells Washington to avoid 'complicity' in disappearences Pakistan’s newly elected civilian government should act immediately to resolve hundreds of cases of people who have disappeared after being arrested by police and intelligence agencies, an international human rights group said Wednesday. In a lengthy report, Amnesty International says the new administration, elected after President Pervez Musharraf was forced by demonstrators an international pressure to allow a free vote last year, has done little to help the relatives of missing people, or to find out about the fate of the missing. Often, the report says, missing detainees were arrested or taken away from their homes in the name of the U.S.-led “war on terrorism” and the prime beneficiary of the disappearances has been Washington, which... [read full story]