KARACHI: The sit-in of the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons for the recovery of members of the Shia community continued for the fourth day in front of Mazar-i-Quaid on Monday, says a statement.

PPP leader Shehla Raza and Organisation Restoration Committee of MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar called on the protesters to express their solidarity.

They said it is a matter of concern that people in the city are missing in this manner. It is a democratic right of the families to protest, they added.

The Sindh government has taken sensitive agencies on board on this issue. The names of the missing persons mentioned by the families today will be recovered very soon. I stand with the families of the missing persons and feel their pain. If there are any allegations [against] the missing people, they should be presented in court, said Shehla Raza.

Dr Farooq Sattar said that the issue of missing persons is a question mark on the state and state institutions. He said that political parties have failed to solve the problem of missing persons after coming to power. The government is showing indifference on the issue. The state should respect the basic rights of the people.

Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2021