HYDERABAD: Office-bearers of the United Sindh Goods Transport Association have urged the governor and chief minister to help recover the organisation’s senior vice president, Raees Qureshi, who had purportedly been picked up by police on Thursday (April 6) and since then his whereabouts are not known.

Speaking at a press conference at the local press club, Khalid Bandhani, Sher Mohammad Bandhani and others, along with the missing transport operator’s brother Sajid Qureshi, claimed that at around 1am on April 6, policemen picked up Raees Qureshi and since then his whereabouts remained unknown.

Sajid Qureshi, narrating the details, claimed that some people in civvies along with some others in police uniform took away his brother.

He said employees of Raees Qureshi were present when two of the police personnel talked to him and asked him that to accompany them. Raees walked towards a double cabin vehicle parked at some distance and he was made to board it, Sajid added.

He said a surf vehicle, a double cabin Revo, and two police mobiles were

parked outside the office of Raees Qureshi during the episode. Sajid said he later approached several police stations but no one present there gave proper replies to his question about his brother’s whereabouts.

In reply to a question from the journalists, Sajid denied his brother’s link with mainpuri trade.

The association’s office-bearers and Sajid also held a protest demonstration outside the press club against alleged enforced disappearance of Raees Qureshi.

Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2023