KARACHI, May 29: Families of three 'missing persons' belonging to Karachi have demanded that the government immediately produce their relatives before the court and also take up their cases with other such cases in the Supreme Court.

They made these demands while addressing a press conference along with Chairman of the World Reform Commission Maqboolur Rehman at the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.

Ahmed Faraz, elder brother of Faisal Bhatti, alleged that a team of law-enforcement agencies along with an official of the AVCC (anti-violent crime cell) raided his home situated in Paposh Nagar on June 16, 2002 and took away Faisal Bhatti. After two days they came with hand-cuffed Faisal and asked us to hand over his licensed TT pistol.

He said since then they had not known his whereabouts. For the recovery of his brother, he said, he approached the SHC and filed a petition against the Rangers and others. But the DG of Rangers appeared in the court and denied the arrest of Faisal and said Rangers officials had not arrested him in any case.

Azizur Rehman and Kulsoom, brother and sister of another missing person, Attaur Rehman, along with his baby daughter Amna said Rehman had been missing since June 14, 2002 and they had no information about him. They said that some armed persons, allegedly personnel of law enforcement agencies, arrested him at their home.

They said that following the SHC order on a petition filed for Attaur Rehman's recovery, they lodged an FIR but they still were unaware about his whereabouts.

Nadia, wife of Gulzar Lone, missing since April 20, 2006, said her husband was kidnapped in Peshawar and had not yet returned home. No one had contacted her for his release, she added.

Talking to newsmen, Advocate Maqboolur Rehman said that relatives of the missing persons contacted him and said that their relatives were arrested or kidnapped in different areas allegedly by law-enforcement agencies.

He said that the missing persons did not belong to any religious party or militant outfits. He alleged that the law-enforcement agencies had picked them up.

Maqboolur Rehman said the World Reform Commission would soon file a petition for their recovery in the Sindh High Court.— PPI