27 February 2005	Sunday	17 Muharram 1426

ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: A woman from Karachi has sought help of President Gen Pervez Musharraf, President George W. Bush and Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui in the recovery of her husband and brother-in-law who, she alleges , have been picked up by the agencies at the behest of the US government.

Speaking at a news conference at Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club camp office on Saturday, Sara Zain said her husband Zain Afzal and brother-in-law Kashan Afzal were forcibly picked up at midnight on August 13 by over 50 people in plainclothes who entered their Nazimabad residence after breaking the door.

She said her husband and brother-in-law, who were US nationals and sons of an ex-MQM MPA, were taken to some unknown place at gunpoint. The kidnappers, she said, also took their passports, social security cards, driving licences, computers and licensed gun.

Ms Zain said the police registered FIR only on the orders of the Sindh High Court. She said the officials of intelligence agencies showed their ignorance about the whereabouts of her husband and brother-in-law.

She said she had knocked at every door to seek justice and approached the American consulate, President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad, MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain and federal ministers but she got no response from them. Ms Zain said she had even sent a letter to US President George W. Bush to seek justice. She criticized the role of the human rights organizations in this regard.