Missing

Fatwa Comes Too Late for Kashmir’s Half-Widows

By Athar Parvaiz
Forty-seven-year-old Shahmala’s husband has been missing since 1993. In India’s restive Jammu and Kashmir state, she is what is known as a half-widow, a woman who has no clue whether her husband is dead or alive.

Sri Lanka Prepares ‘Certificates of Absence’

By Amantha Perera
Five years after the end of a bloody and protracted civil war, Sri Lanka has begun its first survey of families of the missing in order to assess their needs.

When the Missing Don’t Return

By Amantha Perera
Some call it ‘frozen loss,’ a point in time that families and relatives find almost impossible to extricate themselves out of, even years after their loved ones have disappeared.

Killers Roam Free in Nepal

By Sudeshna Sarkar
When the police finally arrested a man this month in the Nepali capital for the murder of a teenager nine years ago, it became a matter of life and death for Nanda Prasad Adhikari and his wife Ganga Maya.

‘Thousands’ Missing in Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Twenty-year-old Adnan Khan was among eight persons convicted for an attempt on the life of former president Gen. Pervez Musharraf. The conviction appeared uncertain, just as his whereabouts were before the order by a military court.


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