UN Working Group arrives in Quetta

QUETTA: A six-member group of the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) arrived in Quetta on Saturday, Geo News reported.

The delegation lead by Olivier de Frouville arrived in Quetta on a two-day visit where it will hold meetings over the issue of missing persons in Balochistan’s provincial capital and will also meet with the relatives of the disappeared people.

The working group will also meet with the national and political leaders while the group will also be briefed about the missing persons’ issue.

The mandate of the UN team that had arrived in Pakistan on September 9 was to collect data about the missing persons.

The delegation had been visiting various parts of the country and meeting officials, representatives of civil society organisations and UN agencies.