Fears are developing over the fate of a pakistani activist who has been reported lacking because the weekend.
Raza khan from lahore disappeared after attending a public dialogue on a current, debatable protest via a hardline spiritual group.
Earlier this 12 months some of social media activists have been "disappeared," earlier than being launched.
Later told the bbc a "nation agency" had abducted and tortured them. The navy denied any involvement.
On saturday mr khan helped organise a small public occasion in lahore which discussed the recent take a seat-in by using a new islamist political birthday celebration.
That protest, accusing a central authority minister of committing blasphemy, had brought on mass disruption within the capital islamabad, turning violent while police attempted to intervene.
The navy had then facilitated an settlement among the demonstrators and the government.
A few commentators have accused the military of secretly assisting the protests and attacked the terms of the settlement as a capitulation to extremists. The pakistani navy, though, denies interfering in politics.
Umair vahidi, a chum of mr khan's who was also at the general public meeting, said it have been a "frank and open discussion…" "people shared their conflicting points of view..." he added. "there was no hostility."
Blasphemy legal guidelines "and how they can be used to target minorities" had also been discussed, mr vahidi said.
Calls unanswered
Mr vahidi told the bbc the dialogue had finished round 20:00 when all the contributors whilst domestic. That was the ultimate he or any of his pals heard from mr khan.
"i commenced calling raza at approximately 13:30 on sunday and his telephone turned into off. We started out calling his buddies."
After being unable to touch him during the day, mr vahidi and a collection of different friends visited his house round 23:30 on sunday.
"his light become switched on," he stated. "that changed into uncommon."
The door changed into locked, he delivered, and "not anything changed into missing from his room. There were no signs of battle… the neighbours, the owner, no person knew anything."
But, on a later seek mr vahidi stated they noticed at the same time as mr khan's computer display become nevertheless in his room, the laptop base unit changed into missing.
Civil rights campaigners have raised issues approximately a crackdown on dissenting voices in pakistan due to the fact six bloggers went missing in january this 12 months.
Mr vahidi told the bbc he turned into no longer aware of mr khan having obtained any threats, but stated he had told him some of the humans attending his events "might sign the sign up with exceptional names on every occasion".
Mr khan's brother has reported the case to the police, saying it appears he turned into kidnapped.
