BADIN: Relatives of writer Ghulam Raza Jarwar staged a hunger strike against his ‘enforced disappearance’ on Saturday outside the Badin Press Club.
The protestors included Dolh Darya Khan, Husna Banu, Ambreeen Naz, Tabsum Jarwar, Shakeelan Jarwar, Jameel Ahmed, Sharjeel Ahmed, Maria Naz, Hajani Jarwar and others.
The aim of the hunger strike was to draw the attention of higher authorities towards the plight of the family whose loved one has been missing for a month.
The relatives of the abducted person before staging the token hunger strike also took out a protest procession and held a demonstration demanding an immediate release of Ghulam. They also carried banners and placards inscribed with different slogans.
Speaking on the occasion, social activists Dolh Darya Khan Jarwar, Husna Banu, Ambreen Naz, Hajani Jarwar and other deplored that Ghulam Raza was not related to any nationalist group and he is an employee of the Sindh government’s Health Departments, adding that they were much feared about the life of the missing person.
They said that Ghulam Raza Jarwar was picked up by the forces fifteen days ago and his whereabouts had not been made known till date.
They appealed to the chief of army staff, chief justice, prime minister, interior minister to take an immediate notice of “enforced disappearance” of Ghulam Raza and they demanded that the abducted relative should be freed without any further delay and if he was involved in any ill activities against the country than forces must produce him in the courts.
