Pakistani Shiites are disappearing but no one calls out Pakistan for that. A Thread
Scores of Shiite Muslims have reportedly gone missing in Pakistan in the past few years. Activists claim that they have been picked up by the country's intelligence agencies after they returned

from Syria and Iraq. Shiite organizations and activists in Pakistan say that the Syria connection is just an excuse for Pakistani authorities to target Shiites, who make up around 10% of the Muslim-majority country's 180 million population. “Most of the 'missing Shiites' have no

militant background. I'm not ruling out the possibility that some may have gone to Syria to fight for the regime, but some 150-160 missing persons simply went on a pilgrimage to Iran, Iraq and Syria," Shiite activist Rashid Rizvi writes. Rizvi further reveals in his interview to

DW about 60-year-old Sabiha Jafar from the southern city of Karachi who hasn't been able to sleep properly for more than a year. She is desperately waiting for her 32-year-old son, Syed Ali Mehdi, to return home. A taxi driver by profession, Mehdi went to Dubai in 2010 and

returned to Pakistan in September 2017. According to the family, on March 12, 2018, masked security personnel forced their way into their house and took away Mehdi with them, saying he would be released after interrogation. Pakistani authorities maintain that they are not anti

Shia and all claims are not true. On Eid 2020, #EidWithoutShiaMissingPersons trended on Pak twitter highlighting the disappearances that go unnoticed in the drumming by Military and the Mullahs. Some believe that disappearances are result of security intel’s to Pak about militia

activities in Iran, but the claims are hollow because 90% of the disappeared persons are not associated with unrest in any way. It should be noted that Shias have never picked up arms in Pakistan and meet this treatement. International organisations like @UN and @UNHumanRights

are aware of the disappearances. Other than Shia disappearances, Pakistan is plagued by Ahmedia troubles and the obvious persecution of Hindus and Sikhs. It is time India takes a firm stand on Pakistan’s policies of curbing voice of people.