The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued a notice to the home secretary, provincial police chief, Rangers director general and other respondents to submit their respective replies on four petitions seeking recovery of missing men allegedly picked up by Rangers personnel during raids.
A division bench, headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M Shaikh, also issued notice to the deputy attorney general and Sindh advocate general to file comments on the petitions by November 27.
The petitioner, Deen Muhammad, submitted that Rangers personnel raided his house in Korangi area on October 29 and took away his son, Aqeel Ahmed. He said his son, who was a Karachi Water and Sewerage Board’s (KWSB) employee, was missing since then as Rangers personnel did not disclose his whereabouts.
Another petitioner, Shahnaz Begum, said that her son, Abdullah, was picked up by paramilitary troops from her house in Islampura, Nister Road, and since then there was no clue about his whereabouts.
The petitioner, Zeenat, stated that personnel of the law enforcement agencies raided her house in Saeedabad area on October 27 and took away her son, Fahad Ali. She said that LEAs officials were reluctant to disclose whereabouts of her son. The petitioner, Muhammad Shaif, said Rangers personnel had picked up his two sons – Muhammad Sharif and Muhammad Yousuf – on September 20 and since then they were missing. He said they should have produced his sons in the court if they were involved in any criminal case.
Their detention by Rangers was illegal and unconstitutional, said the petitioner pleading the court to order LEAs officials to produce them in court.
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The JI chief said the colonial powers were bent upon wiping out this country by thrusting a nuclear war on it and they were also trying to split this country on racial and ethnic basis as had been done in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Separately, Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC) President Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch strongly condemned the torturing of a Christian couple to death at Kot Radha Kishan and called for a high-level enquiry into the incident.
They said the enquiry committee of the MYC, Punjab, would examine the Kot Radha Kirshan tragedy in details.
