Woman appeals for husband’s recovery

Woman fears that her husband might have been killed in police encounter

ISLAMABAD:

In a press conference at the National Press Club, Tehmina Shah, a resident of the suburbs of the federal capital, appealed to the authorities to recover her husband Nasir Mustafa, who, she said, had disappeared from the lockup.

The woman blamed Nilore Police Station SHO Qasim Zia for the ‘mysterious’ disappearance of her husband. Addressing a presser alongside her mother-in-law and children, she said her husband’s life was in danger. She stated that her husband, who was undergoing treatment in Lahore, was arrested on December 23, 2023, under section 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code by Qasim Zia, who then locked him up and obtained a 12-day remand from the court. She said she last met her husband on January 5 when she went to give him food.

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The next morning, when she visited, he was not present in the lock-up. She further said that upon inquiry, she learned that her husband had escaped police custody at 1.30am when the police took him along for a recovery operation even though the police had already recovered weapons from his possession.

She feared that her husband might have been killed in a police encounter.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 8^th, 2024.