Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that the stance of Pakistan Peoples Party on the issue of missing persons was very clear. DawnNewsTV/File
KARACHI: Information and Religious Affairs Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah late on Saturday night visited the protesters holding a sit-in in front of the Quaid-i-Azam mausoleum for the safe recovery of “missing” persons. He expressed solidarity with the members the aggrieved families.
The minister also spoke to Allama Ahmad Iqbal Rizvi, Allama Haider Abbas, Allama Mubashir Hassan, Nasir Hussain Shirazi, Allama Sadiq Jafari and Allama Aqeel Moosa and other leaders of the Joint Action Committee at the sit-in venue.
Karachi
April 10, 2021
The Pakistan Peoples Party has sought support from the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen for a by-election in Karachi’s National Assembly constituency NA-249, said a press release issued by the MWM on Friday.
In this connection, PPP leaders Waqar Mehdi and Qadir Khan Mandokhel visited the MWM office, where they called on Allama Sadiq Jafari, Allama Mubashir Hassan, Maulana Ali Anwar Jafari and Mir Taqi Zafar.
Mehdi said that the PDM was not an electoral alliance; therefore, PPP candidate Qadir Khan Mandokhel was contesting the by- election. He said that former MNA from NA-249 Faisal Vawda had not spent funds for the betterment of the constituency. He said people should hold him accountable “for the millions of rupees he got but not spent for the purpose”.
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Karachi
April 4, 2021
As part of its strategy to put pressure on the government and the law enforcement agencies to recover missing persons from the Shia community, the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons has announced it will stage sit-ins across the country today.
The announcement was made on Saturday by leaders of the action committee on the second day of an ongoing sit-in protest in front of the Mazar-e-Quaid.
The Joint Action Committee, a joint platform of representative organisations of the Shia community, had given an ultimatum to the government to produce all missing persons in court by March 31. âAfter receiving no positive response from the government, the committee announced the start of a protest from April 2,â said the sit-in organisers.
Family members of missing persons protest outside the Mehfil Shah-i-Khorasan mosque on Friday. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star
KARACHI: There were women and little children holding up pictures of their missing loved ones. Someone was missing a son, someone a husband, someone a brother, someone a father, which compelled all of them to come out in the scorching afternoon heat to hold a sit-in at Mehfil Shah-i-Khorasan, off Numaish Chowrangi, and near the Mazar-i-Quaid under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons here on Friday.
Zaheera from Gulistan-i-Jauhar said that her 22-year-old son, Wahid Hussain, went missing on March 21, 2018. “My son had applied to the army and had even cleared all their tests. While he waited for his letter to come from there he was driving a loading pickup truck to earn some money and supplement the household income. He went missing along with the pickup truck. The truck was recovered three months later but not my son. Two days ago