STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance, 2025 will be reintroduced at the parliament as one that is “more contemporary, more welfare-oriented and more effective in ensuring justice”, said Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman yesterday.

The bill will be brought later in the session after consultations with stakeholders to ensure that offenders “cannot escape accountability under any circumstances”, he said while speaking on a point of order in the parliament, following protests from Jamaat MP Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem.

Ahmad expressed shock that the special parliamentary committee had recommended dropping the ordinance and not ratifying it as a bill.

Fighting back emotion, Ahmad, who himself was a victim of enforced disappearance for about eight years, said he had lived in constant fear of death throughout that time and was now dismayed that the ordinance was being allowed to lapse.

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