Trade and industrial associations condemned the kidnapping of a Karachi pharmaceutical company’s officials by Punjab Police from outside a Lahore sessions court.
Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) Patron In-Chief S M Muneer, Chairman Zubair Chhaya, All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA) President and Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PIBF) Chairman Mian Zahid Hussain and Vice Chairmen Najmul Arfeen and Niaz Ahmed termed the act as highhandedness and an act of bypassing the court.
They said according to media reports, four to six cops in civvies picked them up and bundled them into an Elite Police Force van at gunpoint. The local police are yet to register an FIR, even though four days have passed since the incident, they added. The sessions’ court also assigned a bailiff to recover the personnel on Thursday and, on Saturday with the recovery of the two officials, declared the police act as a contempt of court. However, the bailiff could not recover the persons from any police station, including the CIA Police.
