Indian families are still waiting for the return of men taken prisoner by Pakistan 44 years ago. Over 50 members of the Indian Security Forces remain unaccounted for. With successive Indian governments having failed to establish their fate, the prisoners’ families continue their desperate search for their loved ones.
Though the Pakistani authorities acknowledge they took the men prisoner in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, they have since refused to explain what happened to them, and even denied their existence. However, a number of Indian prisoners of war released in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as Indian civilians released from Pakistani prisons, say they have met some of the missing officers.
