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As she traces her finger across the paper.
Nine-year-old Masooma reads a letter she has written to her father.
But she can't send it because he has been missing since she was just three months old.
Baba jaan, I am alone.
Without you, I cannot sleep.
I just want to meet you and see your face.
Masooma is from the latest generation of women and girls growing up in Pakistan's largest region,
Balochistan, searching for their missing loved ones.
This is Assignment from the BBC World Service.
I'm Farhad Javed with Balochistan's Women of the Vanished.
A warning, some of what you're about to hear includes upsetting details.
In 2021, we were told that there were some bodies in the hospital,
so we should go and check if our brothers were there.
Saira Baloch, now 21 years old, was just 15 when she visited a morgue for the first time.
I still remember when we went to see those bodies.
When I approached the first body, its eyes were gouged out.
There were scars on its face.
Its teeth had been removed.