‘I only protest. I want to go to school’: the childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

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‘I only protest. I want to go to school’: the childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

The families of thousands of people who have gone missing in Balochistan province spend their lives in sit-ins and ralliesWhen people filled the streets and parks to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Pakistan earlier this month, Sammi Deen Baloch was not among them. Instead, she picked up a placard and joined a protest at the Karachi Press Club with dozens of other families.Sammi, 25, says there was no celebrating for the families of Pakistan’s disappear…