KARACHI: Activists of various political parties and civil society staged a hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against the alleged enforced disappearances of citizens in Sindh.

The Voice for Missing Persons arranged the strike in which Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Sindhi Adabi Sangat, Awami Jamhoori Party and many others participated along with the families of the ‘victims’.

Sorath Lohar, vice chairperson of the Voice for Missing Persons, claimed that around 60 people had gone missing from different parts of the province so far whose whereabouts were not known to anyone.

She said they were protesting peacefully but law enforcers, some of whom in civvies, took away four

more persons — Zahid Bugti, Jani Panhwar, Altaf Shah and Ishaq Mangrio — who were present at the hunger strike camp.

South SSP Sarfraz Nawaz Shaikh told Dawn that the police did not detain any person from outside the press club.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2018

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