KARACHI: Rangers took into custody an official of the Fishermen Cooperative Society, who is also the general secretary of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, said PFF chairman Mohammed Ali Shah on Sunday.

He told Dawn that Rangers officials called Saeed Baloch at their office in Keamari on Saturday evening. When he talked to Mr Baloch on Saturday night over the phone, he told him that he was in the custody of the Rangers. Later his cellphone was switched off and since then his whereabouts were not known, he added.

However, a Rangers spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied the arrest of Mr Baloch.

Mr Shah said that that Baloch was also the general secretary of the FCS employees union.

He said that it was not known under what charges the paramilitary force had detained him.

He said they filed an application before the Citizens Police Liaison Committee and considering filing a petition before the Sindh High Court against the illegal detention of the FCS official.

Published in Dawn, January 18th, 2016