This is a piece of data storytelling written by Somaiyah Hafeez for Kontinentalist. It is one of the first data-driven articles on the topic of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, a region in Pakistan.

I designed and illustrated a data visualisation meant to take readers through the arduous process that relatives had been through in order to investigate what happened to their disappeared loved ones.

The vivid colours, diamond and embroidery motifs used in the data visualisations and illustrations were inspired by the pashk, a traditional dress worn by many Baloch women. Many activists campaigning for the release of forcefully disappeared people are women, and were often photographed in the pashk.