KARACHI: Jamaat-i -Islami (JI) on Friday staged a sit-in outside the Police Headquarters in Karachi against the growing incidents of illegal detentions and kidnapping of citizens by police and other law enforcing agencies.
The protest led by JI Secretary General Liquat Baloch after the Friday prayer was attended by a large number of citizens, political workers and family members of the missing persons.
After offering the Friday prayer at New Memon Masjid on M A Jinnah Road the protestors marched towards the police head office chanting slogans against the police and LEAs.
Families including children, wives, and mothers of the missing persons holding placards and banners participated in the protest.
Baloch and Mohammad Hussain Mehnati met with the Inspector General Police Sindh Syed Mushtaq Shah and Additional IG Karachi Akhtar Hussain Gorchani and presented them their demands.
After successful dialogue with the police Baloch informed that the police maintained that they had no knowledge about the whereabouts of the missing persons. However, IGP Sindh established a committee comprising Additional IG Crime Branch and Additional IG Karachi to probe into the matter and search the missing persons.
Liaqat Baloch said it is violation of all civility and democratic norms to whisk away citizens without any court warrant. He said if anyone is wanted to police in any case, he or she should be presented before the court of law.
He demanded of the Government, Judiciary and Army to recover the missing persons at the earliest. He warned that if these innocent persons were not recovered his party’s next sit-in would be outside Sindh Chief Minister House.
He said a sit-in could also be staged in Islamabad if protests in Karachi failed to yield positive results. He alleged the present rulers were slaves of what he called their foreign bosses.
Some family members of the missing persons Ajmal Waheed, Osama Waheed, Maaz Farooqui, Muhammad Ayaz, Muhammad Aamir Sahreef and Rizwan Tayab also spoke and hoped that this sit-in would prove the start of a revolution against injustices in the country.
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