Movement against forced disappearances to begin in Sindh

 KARACHI: Activists of a human rights organisation and nationalist parties of Sindh have decided to start a protest move against the missing political workers allegedly taken into custody by state institutions.

An All Parties Conference will be held on May 22 at Hyderabad to make stronger the agitation move in this regard. The Sindh Human Rights Organisation (SHRO) blamed state institutions for illegal disappearance of some 30-plus political workers from different parts of the province.

According to details provided by the SHRO, some 32 active workers of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) were missing and their relatives blamed state institutions for their forced disappearance.

According to the list, Murtaza Junejo of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) was allegedly picked up from Dokri, District Larkana, on May 6 this year. Ayoub Khandhro, 51, was allegedly picked up from Ranipur, Khairpur Miris, on April 28, 2017. Mir Sikandar Chandio disappeared from the Bhittai Abad Colony, Karachi, on January 28, 2017. Waqar Chana disappeared from Dadu Bypass on April 25, 2017 while returning from a political gathering on the 22nd death anniversary of GM Syed at Sann; Faqeer Aijaz Gaho, Tofiq alias Arslan Abro and Aqib Ali Abbasi, Abdul Latif Chandio, Ibrahim Chandio, Sabir Hussain Chandio from Dadu Bypass on April 25, 2017; Ateeq Vistro from Naushahro Feroz on April 25, 2017, Aijaz Tunio from Nasirabad on April 17, 2017, Hidayat Lohar on April 17, 2017 from Nasirabad.

The SHRO secretary general told ‘The News’ that the practice of disappearing political workers was totally illegal.