THATTA, Jan 3: A man has appealed to the president, prime minister, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, HRCP and the Amnesty International to ensure release of his son allegedly detained by police at an undisclosed place.

Speaking at a press conference in his native village Ahmad Khan Zour here on Tuesday, Ali Dino Zour feared that his son, Nawaz Ali, general secretary of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, might be killed in custody.

He said that about 150 police and other law-enforcement agencies’ personnel stopped the Bolan Mail at a deserted place near Bolhari on the night of Dec 30, got out his son and another JSMM leader Zulfiqar Ali of the train while torturing them and took them away blindfolded to an unknown place. He said that when some passengers protested, Jamshoro DPO Attaullah Chandio, who led the operation, revealed that some ISI personnel were also with them and the arrested persons were to be handed over to them.

He alleged that Samiullah Kalhoro, senior vice-chairman of the JSMM, had also been taken away by agency personnel and his body had been handed over to his parents at a hospital after four months. He feared that his son might also be killed.

He appealed to authorities concerned to ensure that whereabouts of his son were made known and that he was released.

Meanwhile, the JSMM, in collaboration with the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Sindh National Front, People’s Party Parliamentarians, PPP’s youth wing, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Sunni Tehrik and the Goth Sudhar Sangat, took out a procession from Ali Bundar and blocked the Sujawal-Hyderabad highway for two hours to protest against the arrest of the JSMM leaders.

Speaking on the occasion, Aslam Khairpuri, district president of the JSQM, Qadir Bux Zour of the JSMM, Dada Shoro of the SNF, Akash Zour and Ghulam Ali Khwaja of the PPP, Mohammad Moosa and Wazir Ahmad of the Goth Sudhar Sangat alleged that the rulers had made lives of the people of Sindh miserable by usurping their legitimate rights on water and livelihood. They said the people of the province were victimized on one or the other pretext when they demanded their rights.

They warned that if the arrested leaders were not released, political parties would widen the scope of their protest.