ISLAMABAD, JAN 10, (DNA) – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Tuesday that he was in contact with intelligence agencies and was hopeful that missing human rights activist Dr Salman Haider would soon be recovered safe and sound.

Lawmakers had invited the interior minister to brief the House on details regarding the disappearance of and Fatima Jinnah University professor Salman Haider and at least three other social activists – Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, Saleem Haider and Ahmad Raza Naseer – who have also gone missing in the past week.

Briefing the upper house of parliament, the interior minister said the safe recovery of the missing social activists was the government’s priority.

Nisar said the federal government neither pursues the policy of enforced disappearance of its own citizens nor will it tolerate this. He claimed that a number of people have been recovered in the last three and a half years due to the government’s sincere efforts.

The interior minister said CCTV footage showed a Toyota Vigo vehicle following Haider’s car on the evening of his disappearance from Islamabad Capital Territory. Nisar said that footage showed the Vigo disappeared for some time, only to reappear in the footage and was last seen driving towards Rawalpindi.=DNA

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