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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad

‘I only protest. I want to go to school’: the childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.
Anisa Ramzan, left, with a picture of her missing father, with other children who have lost family members, at a protest camp in Islamabad in January. Photograph: Shah Meer Baloch

When people filled the streets and parks to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Pakistan earlier this month, Sammi Deen Baloch was not among them. Instead, she picked up a placard and joined a protest at the Karachi Press Club with dozens of other families.

Sammi, 25, says there was no celebrating for the families of Pakistan’s disappeared, just an ongoing and painful wait.

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