Two relatives go missing in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: A veterinarian and his uncle went missing from Hyderabad on April 16 and the family believes it to be a case of enforced disappearance.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Sindh Agriculture University's Prof Abdullah Arijo complained that the police were not trying to locate his son, Dr Shayan Arijo, and cousin, Khadim Hussain Arijo.

"The local police are reluctant to cooperate. This is making us hopeless," alleged Prof Abdullah. The Arijo family lives within the limits of the Hussainabad police station.



Incidentally, medical student Naureen Jabbar Laghari, who allegedly joined a terrorist network and was arrested from Lahore, and another missing engineering student, Shahbaz Soomro, also lived within the limits of the same police station. The cases of their disappearances were lodged at Hussainabad police station.

Soomro, who went missing on March 20, returned to a relative's home in Karachi on March 25 and the cause of his disappearance remains unknown.

However, security officials have not suggested so far that Laghari, Soomro and Arijo's disappearances were connected in any way.



Prof Abdullah clarified that his son is not associated with any political or religious party. "He left home that morning to drop my cousin [Khadim] to Shahbaz Building [headquarters of the regional bureaucracy] but didn't return."

In a press release issued on Tuesday, a nationalist party claimed that Khadim was their worker. However, Prof Abdullah asserted at the press conference that he does not know about any political affiliations of his cousin.

Shayan, a young veterinarian, is the father of a two-year-old son and six-month-old daughter. Shayan's wife and son attended the conference with Prof Abdullah.

Meanwhile, the Hyderabad SSP was not available for comment.