ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly rounded up by security agencies as part of the anti-terror campaign.
President Pervez Musharraf purged the Supreme Court last year after it began questioning Pakistani security services about the cases. Musharraf said judges were obstructing counterterrorism efforts.
d bring some relief to their families.

Amnesty International has accused Britain and the US of helping Pakistani security forces in the "enforced disappearances" of more than 560 people.
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who was later released, while one man remains under detention after seven years.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Pakistan to reveal the details of hundreds of so-called enforced disappearances during the US-led "war on terror".
The London-based organisation, which released a report on the issue, also said that the Pakistani government should reinstate judges deposed by President Pervez Musharraf.
ng court records, affidavits of victims and witness testimony, Amnesty claimed government forces would detain individuals, including one nine-year-old boy who was held to make his wanted brother turn himself in, and move them between detention centres to make it harder for their whereabouts to be traced.

Islamabad - A leading international rights group urged the Pakistani government Wednesday to investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of country's security agencies. Those people are held under counter-terrorism measures, justified by Pakistan as part of the US-led war on extremists, at various detention centres where they become difficult to trace, the London-based Amnesty International said in a report.
"As a first, immediate measure, the new government should ease the suffering of the relatives of the 'disappeared' by either releasing the detainees or transferring them to official places of detention," said Sam Zarifi, group's Asia Pacific director.
ct immediately to resolve all cases of enforced disappearance."

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 23 (UPI) - Amnesty International has asked the Pakistani government to provide information on hundreds of people it says have been held in the country's "war on terror."
The human rights group in London said the new government in Pakistan should either "release these 'disappeared' people or transfer them to official places of detention."
forces arbitrarily detaining people, blindfolding them, and moving them around numerous detention centers so they become almost impossible to trace," adding the government has been "denying the undeniable" on this issue.

By Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: With each passing day, hopes of recovery of missing persons are fading, as the new coalition government, despite the passage of

By Ed Johnson July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's government must reveal the whereabouts of hundreds of people abducted and detained by security forces and

By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9, as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Amnesty International charged Wednesday.
The missing Pakistanis frequently were tortured and have been moved among secret detention centers regularly so that they become impossible to trace, the human rights group said.
ppointed in November, who, according to activists, have taken up no human-rights cases since they were installed.

Amnesty International has today called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about hundreds of people held in the country's 'war on

The new government of Pakistan should immediately reveal details of where hundreds of missing people -- victims of enforced disappearances -- are being held, investigate all cases and hold to account those responsible, including the country's security and intelligence agencies, said Amnesty International in a report released today.
Hundreds of people who have "disappeared" are detained under counter-terrorism measures, justified by Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror.
, the new government should ease the suffering of the relatives of the 'disappeared' by either releasing the detainees or transferring them to official places of detention," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia Pacific director.

PESHAWAR: Amnesty International - has called on the new government to reveal details of where hundreds of missing people, the victims of enforced disappearances, are being held, urging action against all those involved.
The new government of Pakistan should immediately reveal details of where hundreds of missing people, the victims of enforced disappearances, are being held, investigate all cases and hold to account those responsible including the countryys security and intelligence agencies, the London-based human rights watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday.
on terror. It also calls on other governments most notably the United States to ensure that they are not complicit in, contributing to, or tolerating the practice of enforced disappearances.