Balochistan: The women of the vanished

In the last two decades thousands of men have disappeared in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest region. Activists and some of their families accuse the Pakistani authorities of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings. The government is fighting an insurgency in the region, but denies any involvement in the disappearances. It says some of the missing men have joined militant groups or have simply left the province.

Mutilated bodies have continued to turn up, including in mass graves.

BBC Urdu's Farhat Javed reports on the mothers and daughters left behind who are still searching for their missing loved ones.

Presenter: Farhat Javed
Producer: John Murphy
Programme co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman
Sound engineer: Nigel Appleton
Editor: Penny Murphy

(Photo: Dr Mahrang Baloch praying at the grave of her murdered father)