How families in South Asia confront the enforced disappearance of loved ones

Dr. Muhammad Akbar Marri was taken from his clinic in Baluchistan by Pakistani paramilitary forces in 2010. (VOA) Fahmida Baloch talks about her father, Dr. Muhammad Akbar Marri, who was taken from his clinic in Baluchistan by Pakistani paramilitary forces in 2010. (VOA) Farhad Ashkyar was 2 when his father was seized in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1979. (VOA)

They’ve been waiting for years, sometimes decades, not knowing if their loved ones – victims of enforced disappearances in South Asia – are dead or alive.