Missing persons: ‘JI activist’s brother picked up’

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Amir Muhammad Hussain Mehanti alleged that intelligence agencies had picked up his party activist’s 16-year-old brother who is missing since May 29.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Mehanti said that the victim, Qasim Ali Shah, was unlocking his godown in Gushan-e-Ghazi when four men abducted him. He said that they will raise the issue in the Senate and warned, “If the boy is not released immediately, we will take to the roads.” He demanded the Sindh High Court chief justice, the chief minister and the governor take notice.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 15^th, 2011.