Since the War on Terror thousands of Pakistani men and women have been picked up by the law enforcement agencies. Hundreds have been handed over to the US often for a sizeable bounty. Many have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. The Pakistani government suggests that only 4,000 have been arrested since 2001. Human Rights organizations claim thousands more. It is impossible ascertain the correct figures. All that can be said is they remain invisible, hidden from the public, without any contact with family, subject to torture and beyond the protection of ALL laws.

The unlawful practice of enforced disappearances, an equphemism for kidnappings carried out by law enforcement agencies, is a recent phenomenon in Pakistan and is directly linked with America's War on Terror. Some of the disappeared are foreign or dual citizens, Baluchi, Sindhi demanding their rights and religious believers and activists. Leaving behind mothers, elderly parents, wives and children, who can not economically support themselves. The enforced disappearances which have a most tragic impact need immediate relief.