SHC moved against MQM-Pakistan deputy convener’s detention

The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to the federal and provincial law officers, Sindh Inspector General of Police, Sindh Rangers Director General and others on a petition against Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Deputy Convener Shahid Pasha's illegal detention, allegedly by personnel of law enforcement agencies.

The petitioner, Shahina Shahid, submitted in her petition that her spouse, Syed Shahid Pasha, deputy convener of MQM-P, was coming home from the party's office in Bahadurabad when he was picked by LEAs near the Aga Khan Hospital on December 14.

She maintained that neither the detainee was produced before any court of law, nor were details of the cases pending against him provided to the family. She requested the court to direct the police and law enforcement agencies to produce the detainee and provide details of cases, if any, pending against him.

SHC’s division bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto after a preliminary hearing of the petition issued notices to the federal and provincial law officers, IG Sindh, DG Rangers and others, and called in their comments.

The court also directed the law enforcement agencies’ personnel including the police and others, to file comments on petitions against illegal detention of citizens picked up from different areas of the city.

Petitioners Sughra, Rana Zahid, Sardaran submitted that the police and LEAs picked up Mohammad Raees, Rana Rashid and Junaid from Malir, Korangi and Orangi Town areas, but their whereabouts remain unknown. They sought immediate recovery of the detainees and called for them being produced before a court of the law.  

Wali Babar case

The prosecutor and advocate generals Sindh were directed to file their respective comments on a petition seeking transfer of the Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar’s murder convict to Karachi from Sukkur

Petitioner Ayesha Faisal submitted in the SHC that her spouse, Faisal Mehmood, was convicted along with others in Khan’s murder case and that he has been incarcerated in the Sukkur prison for the last three years.

She maintained that the family faces difficulty in meeting him there and requested the court to direct the jail authorities to shift the convict from the Sukkur prison to the Karachi jail.