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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
Karachi
April 1, 2021
The Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons announced on Wednesday it would start a sit-in tomorrow (April 2) and continue protesting till the recovery of all “missing’ persons” of the community.
Allama Ahmad Iqbal Rizvi, the Majlis-e-Wahdat Muslimeen’s central deputy secretary-general and a leader of the action committee, made the announcement at a press conference. He said 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; otherwise, it committee would stage a sit-in at Numaish Chowrangi.
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