This article examines the politics of protest in Pakistan as practiced by the human rights activists and litigants seeking justice for people who have been “disappeared” by the state's military and intelligence services. Based on fieldwork among the family members and friends of these “missing” persons, it discusses how they create dossiers of memory to retain the memory of the disappeared within public sphere and records. Most studies of state bureaucracy and legality trace their history—assumed to be embedded in official files and documents—in state archives. The dossiers assembled by families and friends challenge the state narrative on its war against terrorism and serve as counter‐archives through which state violence can be traced politically and ethnically and mapped geographically. The article draws attention to how marginalized groups use law and its documentary forms against the state in order to hold it accountable for the excesses committed against them.

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暴力，法律与档案馆：记忆档案挑战如何在巴基斯坦反恐战争中失踪

本文考察了人权活动家和诉讼人为巴基斯坦的军事和情报部门“失踪”的人们寻求正义的巴基斯坦的抗议政治。基于这些“失踪者”的家人和朋友之间的田野调查，它讨论了他们如何创建记忆档案，以在公共领域和记录中保留失踪者的记忆。大多数关于州官僚机构和合法性的研究都追溯了它们的历史（假定被嵌入到官方档案和文件中）在国家档案馆中。由家人和朋友聚集在一起的档案材料向国家关于其反恐战争的叙述提出挑战，并作为反档案，通过它可以在政治上，种族上和地理上追踪国家暴力。