Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Rabita Committee condemned on Monday the ‘extrajudicial killing’ of a MQM worker who had been missing for four years. The bullet-riddled body of the slain worker, Shahid Kaleem, was found near the Northern Bypass the previous day.
MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi headed the Rabita Committee’s emergency meeting at the party’s head office.
Condemning Kaleem’s death, the Rabita Committee members said that Article 10 of the Constitution gave every citizen the right to a free and fair judicial trial, but, they decried, people were killed extrajudicially on a daily basis in the country.
According to Kaleem’s family, he went missing from Liaquatabad on December 9, 2016, after he received a phone call and stepped out to take it. His wife had informed the law enforcement agencies of his disappearance, while a case was lodged at the Supermarket police station in April 2019.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2020.
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