Overview
- Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar announced a new committee to scrutinize longstanding disappearance cases following prior commissions and parliamentary reviews.
- Authorities report the recorded caseload fell from nearly 10,000 at its peak to roughly 2,600, which they describe as a human-rights failure that must reach zero.
- The government will implement a stopgap relief package that provides financial support and facilitates bank access and inheritance matters without closing any cases.
- Tarar said some on the lists were killed in attacks or operations or may have joined banned groups, while rights advocates maintain security agencies have unlawfully detained citizens.
- He defended routing some suspects to military courts for attacks on army sites and noted legislation advancing an independent minorities commission alongside a drop to 34 blasphemy cases in 2025.