KARACHI: The family of a missing National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) official approached police on Tuesday with an application for his recovery.

The application, seen by Dawn, addressed Sindh Inspector General of Police (IG) Javed Alam Odho and stated that applicant Sohail Sangi’s younger son, Fayyaz Ahmed Janjhi, who is an assistant director at Nadra, had been missing since 6:30pm on July 20.

Sangi, a veteran journalist and a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, further stated that his family had tried to contact Janjhi continuously, but his phone was switched off. The family also contacted his colleagues, who said he had left his office at Ayesha Manzil at around 6pm on Monday, he added.

“But he did not reach home,” the application said.

Urging authorities to register a complaint of him going missing and locate him, the applicant said his son or the rest of the family had no enmity with anyone.

Janjhi’s elder brother, Riaz Sohail, who is also a senior journalist at BBC, told Dawn that the family had approached the Sindh IG with the application, and the provincial police chief had assigned the case to Central Senior Superintendent of Police Imran Khan.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) also posted on X: “HRCP is deeply concerned to learn that Fayaz Janjhi, a Nadra officer and son of HRCP council member Sohail Sangi, has been missing since yesterday. We demand that the Sindh government expedite their efforts to recover Mr Janjhi safely.”

Karachi Press Club President Fazil Jamili posted on X that he, too, was concerned about Janjhi’s disappearance and urged the Sindh government and law enforcement agencies to take “immediate action and expedite efforts to ensure his safe and swift recovery”.