List of Bagram detainees has majority of Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD: 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.
She said it was true that in the past, many Pakistanis went to Afghanistan with the nod of some institutions. She said it should be understood that the Afghan war was over 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.
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.
