A/HRC/13/31 Pakistan Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review: 6 Cases clarified during the period under review: 0 Cases sent under the urgent action procedure Cases sent under the standard procedure 3 3 94 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 1 Government Nongovernmental sources Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 0 0 100 Multiple replies on some cases Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6month rule) No 0 General allegation N/A Government response N/A Prompt intervention letter N/A Government response N/A Working Group request for a visit N/A Government response N/A Urgent actions 406. The Working Group sent three cases under its urgent action procedure to the Government concerning Zakir Majeed, who disappeared on 8 June 2009, after being abducted by intelligence agents of the Pakistani Army; Din Muhammad Baloch, abducted by State agents on 28 June 2009, from the Ornach Hospital where he was working; and Ehsan Arjumandi, abducted by state intelligence agents on 7 August 2009, from a bus when travelling from the Mand district of Balochistan province to Karachi, Pakistan. The Government acknowledged receipt of these cases. Standard procedures 407. The Working Group transmitted three newly-reported cases to the Government. The first concerned Atiq-Ur Rehman, arrested in June 2004, in Abbottabad District in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan by Pakistan’s intelligence officers. The second concerned Naeem Muhammad Naeem, arrested on 22 September 2007 in Chorangi, North Karachi-Sindh by State authorities. The third case concerned Zain-Ul-Abeden, arrested on 4 January 2008, in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. Information from the Government 408. The Government transmitted one communication dated 10 September 2009, on one case. The information was insufficient to clarify it. Total cases transmitted, clarified and outstanding 409. Since its establishment, the Working Group has transmitted 124 cases to the Government; of those, six cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by GE.09-17704 87

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