Balochistan: A life searching rows of unclaimed bodies for missing brothers and sons

Women across generations in Pakistan's Balochistan are demanding answers about the missing men in their lives.

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All she heard in the dimly-lit room were sobs, whispered prayers and shuffling feet. The first body she saw was a man who appeared to have been tortured.

His eyes were missing, his teeth had been pulled out and there were burn marks on his chest.

"I couldn't look at the other bodies. I walked out," she recalled.

But she was relieved. It wasn't her brother - a police officer who had been missing for nearly a year since he was arrested in 2018 in a counter-terrorism operation in Balochistan, one of Pakistan's most restive regions.

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