Govt efforts continue to reduce number of missing persons.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Law and Justice Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday assured the participants of the cabinet sub-committee on enforced disappearance and missing persons that government's effort was to reduce the number of missing persons cases in future and get rid of this scourge.

He expressed these views while chairing a meeting of Cabinet sub Committee to deliberate a policy relating to enforced disappearances.

Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Agha Hassan Baloch, Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation Shazia Marri, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Faisal Sabzwari, Senator Kamran Murtaza, IG Islamabad Police, DIG Balochistan, DIG Sindh, anchor person Naseem Zahra, parents of missing journalist Mudassar Mehmood Naro, Prof. Faisal Manzoor Baloch, human rights activist Sami Baloch and daughter of missing Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch participated in the meeting.

The Minister said that the missing persons who could be traced should have access and this cycle could be stopped in the future.

The Interior Minister said that the government fully understand the pain and sorrow of the families of the missing persons, it wanted...