Sindh ruling party upset as two leaders go missing

KARACHI: Mysterious disappearance of two persons from Islamabad and Hyderabad has created panic among the ruling party of Sindh.

Both the persons, Nawab Laghari and Ashfaq Laghari, said to be close aides to a main leader of Sindh ruling party, remained active in the party affairs. By profession an engineer, Ashfaq Laghari originally from Baksho Laghari village of Hyderabad district, remained an active worker of the Sindh People’s Students Federation (SPSF), the PPP student wing, in his student life and also had good relations with the rival nationalist party leaders.

Sources close to him said Laghari’s reputation was good and in recent years he had cultivated good relations with the party’s central leadership. Nawab Laghari, who belongs to Rawat Laghari, a small village in Dadu district, started his political carrier as a student leader of GM Syed’s Jeay Sindh Movement but later he joined Dr Qadir Magsi’s Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party and finally the PPP. He was very close to the central party leadership.

Nawab Laghari also remained a special assistant to the then Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah in 2012. The FIR of disappearance of Ashfaq Laghari, said to be an officer of JJVL power generation company, a sub-organization of Omni Group, has been lodged with the Gadap City Police Station on the complaint of his wife.

The FIR of Nawab Laghari’s disappearance was lodged by his brother-in-law Muhammad Ramzan with the Lohi Bher Police Station, Islamabad. Waqar Mehdi, General Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Sindh Chapter, expressed concern over the disappearance of both the persons.

A party leader told ‘The News’ on condition of anonymity that after the arrival of Asif Zardari and his campaigning, especially in Punjab, release of Dr. Asim on bail and bail before arrest of Sharjeel Memon had infused a sense of security among the party leaders and workers but the disappearance of these two persons had upset them.