KARACHI, Aug 9: Syeda Z M Rizvi, wife of an IT engineer Syed Mumtaz Hussain Rizvi, has appealed to the authorities to order release of her husband who was whisked away by agencies personnel at Karachi Airport after his arrival from Dubai on July 3.

“If he is wanted in any case, it should be notified and duly tried in the court of law,” said Mrs Rizvi while speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. She was seated with her five children.

Ms Rizvi said in the absence of her husband her children had been passing through mental agony and their future was being affected. She said her husband had served in Pakistan Naval Engineering College as a teacher.

“We are unable to comprehend why doctors, engineers and highly qualified people were being killed in the cover of sectarianism and now this scheme had taken a new turn as professionals were being arrested and their families were not being informed about the whereabouts of detained persons.

She said that her husband was taken away by agencies personnel before the eyes of our children. He had been working for a Japanese firm in Dubai for over two-and-half years as IT manager when in June last an official of the Dubai government informed him that his stay permit had been cancelled and he would have to go back to Pakistan with his family.

On July 3, we reached here with Emirates flight EK-606. Soon after our landing at Karachi airport, two officials in civilian dress blocked the gate and stopped her husband. On her protest, they told him that she should go home taking her children and her husband would join them after a few days.

She was forced to leave the airport and since then there was no news of his whereabouts. She said she had filed a petition in the Sindh High court where her case was clubbed with other such petitions on July 21 by the chief justice.