Pakistan: 90-year-old father’s arrest begins movement for Shia missing persons

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Their faces filled with embarrassment over their inability to say anything about the matter, the police personnel gently ushered the elderly man into the police van

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By Fawad Hasan | October 6, 2017

A 90-year-old father, who could barely walk, asked the police to arrest him in protest over his son’s disappearance.

KARACHI: Activists in Karachi began a movement on Friday for the safe recovery of Shia missing persons with around half-a-dozen people surrendering themselves to the police.

The ‘Fill the Jails Movement’ was announced on the Ashura by activists and families of missing people who said that they will court their arrests if their loved ones did not return home safe and sound by October 6. The decision was made to pressure law enforcement agencies, who have so far failed to produce around 30 Shia mourners allegedly picked up earlier this year by law enforcers in plainclothes a few days after they returned from Karbala, Iraq.

The protesters shouted slogans with women crying as they gathered outside Khoja Shia Isna Ahseri Masjid in Kharadar soon after Friday prayers where a 90-year-old father, who could barely walk, asked the police to arrest him in protest over his son’s disappearance.

Their faces filled with embarrassment over their inability to say anything about the matter, the police personnel gently ushered the elderly man into the police van along with Shia cleric Allama Hasan Zafar Naqvi, Advocate Tassawur Hussain, Razi Rizvi and others.


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