KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was on Wednesday informed that another missing social media activist of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf also returned safely.

Earlier, three other missing members of the party’s social media team had also reached their homes after their relatives petitioned the SHC seeking their whereabouts.

When a two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto took up the matter for hearing, the Aziz Bhatti SHO said that the missing person, Fahad Jamal Siddiqui, had returned home.

The bench said that the counsel for the petitioner also confirmed the same and did not press the petition. “The petition is accordingly disposed of as having become infructuous,” it added.

Last month, Fahad’s wife had approached the SHC stating that he was picked up from his house located within the remit of the Aziz Bhatti police station on the night between March 27 and March 28 and since then his whereabouts were not known.

Family members of three other activists had also petitioned the SHC against disappearance of Mohammad Arshad Siddiqui, head of the PTI’s Karachi social media team; Mohammad Salman Khan, general secretary of the PTI-Sindh’s social media wing; and Mudassir Rehman, chairman-elect of Union Committee-8 and social media activist. Later, their lawyers informed the court that they had returned safely.

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2023