Uncovering Pakistan’s secret human rights abuses

By M Ilyas Khan
BBC News, Dera Ismail Khan

Pakistani soldiers patrol next to a newly fenced border fencing along Afghan border at Kitton Orchard Post in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal agency on October 18, 2017IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionFor more than a decade Pakistan has kept Waziristan under tightly regulated travel restrictions

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Pakistan’s long battle with militants as part of the post-9/11 “war on terror”. Evidence of murder and torture by soldiers and insurgents is emerging only now. The BBC has gained rare access to some of the victims.

It was early in 2014 when TV news networks trumpeted a major victory in the war against the Pakistani Taliban – the killing of one of the group’s most senior commanders in a night-time air raid.
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