HYDERABAD, April 18: A widow has appealed to the governor of Sindh, chief minister, IGP and senior police officers of Hyderabad region to take notice of attack on her son and provide protection to her family members.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday Ms. Tasleem said that five armed men in a Mazda car kidnapped her son Irfan when he was going home on April 8 after closing his shop at Khipro Naka stand in Mirpurkhas.

His captors took him to some unknown place, tied with ropes and severely tortured him, she said and added that they doused him in patrol and threw him at dump yard at Tanga stand, Mirpurkhas. But before they could put a torch to him some people spotted them and they fled in their car, she said.

She said that her son was moved to Civil Hospital but the doctors refused to provide him any treatment and referred him to Hyderabad.

Ms. Tasleem complained that Mirpurkhas police, too, refused to register an FIR. She said that the culprits were threatening her and appealed to the governor, chief minister and senior police officers to provide protection to her family and arrest the culprits.

To a question, she said that the accused were her relatives and they had dispute with her on a matrimonial matter.

ATTACK SLAMMED: The Hyderabad chapter of the Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees on Wednesday condemned the alleged attack on Mufti Mohammad Yousuf Kasuri in Masjid Ahle Hadees, Lines Area, desecration of the mosque and torching of religious books as well as registration of false case against the Mufti.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club the office-bearers of the party, Maulana Inamullah Kanjahi, Mir Balach Ali Khan Talpur and Mohammad Zafarullah Mohammadi said that a group of miscreants attacked Mufti Yousuf, desecrated Masjid Ahle Hadees and also injured many worshippers.

They said that a false blasphemy case was field against the Mufti and he was arrested and demanded that the federal and Sindh governments should release Mufti Yousuf, hand over the administration of the mosque to Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees and punish the attackers.

To a question they said that police had been posted at the mosque and no faithful was allowed to enter the mosque for prayers.

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