What is "missing persons"

n. (missing person English)

Missing Persons is an American band that plays a blend of new wave and hard rock. The band was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio, and drummer Terry Bozzio. They later added bassist Patrick O'Hearn and keyboardist Chuck Wild.

Dale's quirky voice and heavy makeup made the band a favorite on MTV in the early 1980s. Her revealing outfits played a pivotal role in moving the culture of music videos towards that of overt sexual exhibitionism.

Dale and Terry Bozzio met while working with Frank Zappa, and they married in 1979. Cuccurullo encountered the pair while contributing to the Zappa album Joe's Garage (1979). O'Hearn was also a former member of Zappa's touring band, and Wild had played with a variety of bands before joining.

Missing Person(s) or Missing People may refer to:

• Missing person a person who has disappeared for usually unknown reasons
• Missing persons (Pakistan), referring to the enforced disappearances in Pakistan
• Missing Persons (band), an American band (active 1980–86)
• Missing Persons (TV series), an American TV series (1993–94)
• Missing Persons (1990 film), a British television film
• The First 48: Missing Persons, documentary episode of the TV show "The First 48"
• The Missing Person (film), an American film (2009)
• Missing Person (novel) (French: Rue des Boutiques Obscures), a 1978 French novel by Patrick Modiano
• Missing People, UK charity
• The Missing People, 1940 film
• for missing people organizations, see List of missing people organizations

Missing Persons is an American crime drama television series, set in Chicago. It followed a fictitious missing persons unit; each episode usually following the investigation into three or more cases. It ran on ABC from August 30, 1993 to February 17, 1994.

It was produced by Gary Sherman Productions in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions, and often used local Chicago-based actors, as well as occasional guest stars such as Nina Foch, Eddie Bracken and Lois Smith. Semi-regulars included Ian Gomez, Irma P. Hall, Laura Cerón and Valerie Harper. Unlike most series from Cannell's company, he did not create or co-create this series.

Abdul Qadeer Baloch , better known as Mama Qadeer is a Baloch rights activist hailing from the Balochistan province of Pakistan. He is the founder of the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons.

Qadeer came to national and international prominence in 2013 when he traveled more than 2000 kilometers from Balochistan to Islamabad along with other Baloch men and women to protest against the issue of Baloch missing persons. Qadeer's own son, Jaleel Reki Baloch, was found dead in 2012, presumably killed by Pakistan's security agencies. Jaleel was a political activist for the Baloch liberation movement. He was abducted from the front door of his home in Quetta on 13 February 2009. Witnesses including his friends, nearby shopkeepers and vegetable vendors and others in the neighbourhood mention that the abductors came in four unmarked cards with two Frontier Corps pickup trucks. His mutilated corpse was returned three years later.

In March 2015, Qadeer was barred from leaving the country from Karachi Airport at the last minute. He was traveling to New York to participate in a human rights conference to highlight the plight of Baloch people and the issue of missing Baloch persons.

On April 9, 2015, Qadeer was scheduled to give a talk titled "Unsilencing Balochistan" in an event at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. The event was cancelled at the last minute by the administration citing "order from government" as the reason behind the cancellation. The incident was followed by protests from the students and faculty of the institute against the "academic censorship". The cancellation also created an uproar on the social media in Pakistan.

Following the cancellation, an event titled 'Unsilencing Balochistan Take 2: In Conversation with Mama Qadeer, Farzana Baloch & Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur' was held at T2F Karachi. Following the event, Sabeen Mahmud, the director of T2F, was shot dead by unidentified assailants.