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Gross Violation of Human Rights by Pakistan’s Military Regime - More
Cases of Arbitrary Arrests, Torture and Disappearance of Sindhi Political/Democratic Activists in Sindh World Sindhi Congress (WSC) strongly condemns the arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearnce of Sindhi nationalist political activists under the hands of Pakistan’s military establishment. In recent months scores of Sindhi activists have been kidnapped by the intelligence agencies and have been taken to the secret prisons and dungeons where they are being tortured inhumanely. Their only crime is that they are struggling for the democratic rights of the Sindhis in their own motherland. In past many victims of these atrocities have been either crippled or even died. In May this year Senior Vice Chairman of a Sindhi Nationalist organisation (Jeay Sindh Muthida Mahaz), Samiullah Kalhoro, was tortured to death. The operation is going on relentlessly and on 01 Jan 2006 two leaders of Jeay Sindh Muthida Mahaz, Nawaz Zaour and Zulfiqar Kolachi have been arrested in a combined operation of military and paramilitary forces. The whereabouts of these two are hitherto unknown as of those hundreds previously abducted in similar operations. The following Sindhi political activists are currently in the custody of Pakistan’s military establishment and the news are emerging that they are being tortured inhumanely: Syed Asghar, Mazhar Bhatti, Mansoor Marri, Sikander Soomro, Rafiq Laghari, Ghulam Nabi, Tahir Soomro, Faiz Chandio, Umar Tewno, Sanaullah Bhatti Shabir Mallah, Imran Laghari, Fayaz Janwri, Aslam Soomro,. The whereabouts of senior political activists of Jeay Sindh Muthida Mahaz, Sattar Hakro, Muzaffar Bhutto, Muhram Mallah, Ahmad Teewno, Zulfiqar Khaskheley are still known since their disappearance of many months. There is a genuine fear for the life of these workers as the Pakistani establishment is not declaring their arrests. Pakistan’s military run state has put a price on the heads of Sindhi nationalist political activists. Pakistani agencies are offering money to provide information about Shafi Burfat, and Khalil Khaskheley, respectively Chairman and Senior Vice Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muthida Mahaz. In Sindh there have been hundreds of protests from all political and civil quarters to release or to produce these political workers in civil courts of law but Pakistani agencies are still holding them and are not allowing any body to meet them. We demand from the Pakistan’s dictatorial military regime to immediately release all these political workers as their arrests and torture constitute to gross violation of human rights. WSC has declared its resolve to take this issue to all the international venues of human rights if Pakistan’s military establishment fails to release these political workers. About the World Sindhi Congress (WSC): WSC is a UK, USA, and Canada based human rights advocacy organization. The main objective of WSC is to foster awareness within the international community about the persecution of Sindhis in Pakistan and about Sindhi people's struggles for their human rights, including the right to self-determination. WSC is a registered company in England and Wales, and California, USA, organized to carry out non-profit activities only. For more information, visit http://www.worldsindhicongress.org. |