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Family members of missing persons protest outside the Mehfil Shah-i-Khorasan mosque in this file photo. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star KARACHI: The Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons on Friday ended a sit-in against ‘enforced disappearances’ near mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah after 28 days following “successful talks” with representatives of the government and state institutions as “some persons” were released while “assurances” were given for the release of more persons, according to the organizers of the protest. Speaking at a press conference, religious scholars and relatives of the missing persons said that they held talks with the government and state institutions’ representatives during which deadlock also occurred but at the end “some missing persons were released.” ....
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 ....
KARACHI: Samina Alvi, First Lady of Pakistan, participated in a tree-plantation exercise organized by Shehri Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE) at Mazar-i-Quaid here on Tuesday. On the occasion she urged the masses to take up the responsibility of turning the country green with equal care towards nurture and protection of plants as well as trees in their neighbourhoods and cities. “Planting of trees is a blessing itself,” she said adding that this not only helps provide habitat to creatures right from birds to butterflies but also provides the needed relief to human beings against weather vagaries. The first lady regretted that there still exists lack of public understanding and awareness about importance of plantation. ....
The Sindh chief minister, accompanied by other government functionaries, leads a walk in solidarity with Kashmiris on Friday. Online KARACHI: The Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed across the city on Friday with traditional zeal as political parties, civil society, government and rights bodies organised rallies and seminars and vowed to continue extending their moral and legal support to the people of the India-held oppressed region. People from different walks of life as well as government officials and political parties arranged separate events to express their solidarity with the people of Kashmir. Sindh govt holds rally The Sindh government organised a rally from Kashmir Road to Mazar-i-Quaid to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir. ....