LARKANA, March 19: A judicial commission should be formed to probe into charges levelled against Asghar Shah by the Inspector-General of Police, Sindh. This was said by Ghulam Mustafa Shah, father of Asghar, and his relatives in a press conference here on Saturday. They disputed the charge that Asghar had links with the RAW, and said that if the IGP was so sure as to level such charges, why he had not produced him before the press. Ghulam Mustafa alleged that his son was being subjected to third degree torture, which had left him severely ill. ‘We are unaware of his whereabouts,’ he said, adding that they were a respectable Syed family of Nasirabad and had nothing to do with the intelligence agency of a certain neighbouring country. Asghar was not a prisoner of war that such callous treatment should be meted out to him by those who claimed to be the champions of human rights, he asserted. He urged the Sindh governor and the chief minister to place his son under judicial custody. He appealed to Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal provincial secretary-general Khalid Mehmood Soomro, Rasool Bux palijo, Abdul Wahid Areesar, Bashir Khan Qureshi, and Dr Qadir Magsi to help save the life of his son who was a political worker and not a terrorist.

Mr Asghar was arrested from Karachi on Feb 21, following accusations by the Sindh IGP that he was a RAW agent.

CHEQUES: Former District Nazim Khursheed Junejo and MPA Ghulam Mujdad Isran handed over cheques of Rs50,000 to each heir of four deceased of the Qambar firing case.

The cheques were paid to them on behalf of Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto.

School teacher Ali Madad Magsi, Fatah Tunio, Riaz Buriro and Nasir Khanzado were killed in police firing on Dec 24 last year when they were protesting against renaming of Qambar district as Shahdadkot district.