KARACHI: The Imamia Organisation Pakistan has demanded that the government make sincere efforts for the recovery of its chairman, Syed Raziul Abbas Shamsi.

Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, senior leaders of the IOP, including Sheikh Hasan Salahuddin, Sadiq Jaffery and Hussain Abbas, said that their 70-year-old chairman was a respected social and religious person.

They said Mr Shamsi had left Lahore for Islamabad on Oct 25 but did not reach the federal capital and since then had remained missing. They called upon the government, law enforcement and security agencies to make serious efforts to locate Mr Shamsi’s whereabouts as it had been a cause of concern for his family and organisation members across the country.

“More than 70 Shia scholars, engineers, students, professionals and activists are missing from different parts of the country. It’s unfortunate that despite assurances by the government and the institutions concerned, we have not heard any news about all these missing persons, only aggravating concerns of their family and friends,” said Mr Salahuddin of the IOP.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2018