Three days after Jan Muhammad Nohri, the DO for education in Umerkot, went missing on his way to Hyderabad, the police suspect that the agencies may be behind his disappearance.
“The circumstantial evidence suggests this because he hailed from the border region in Tharparkar,” said an official who wishes to remain anonymous.
Nohri is believed to have been kidnapped on the way to an official meeting on Saturday. Even his driver and office car cannot be traced and their cell phones are switched off.
“His family would have definitely received a call for ransom if he had been kidnapped,” he said. “Besides, the abductors also took away the office car, which is of no use to them, along with the driver.”
The police have yet to register an FIR.
According to DSP Iqbal Mangrio, who is investigating the case, the cellular signals went off when they had travelled only about 25 to 30 kilometers out of the city on the Umerkot-Mirpurkhas road. He said the only contact made by the two men was on Saturday when the driver called a clerk of his office at 9:30 pm. But the call was not received and the cell phone was switched off again.
According to his brother Shaukat Ali Nohri, the DO is around 50 years old and has eight children.
Ghulam Mustafa Soomro, the executive director of education of Umerkot, has been pursuing the case with the district administration. He complained that the police were not helping. The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association protested in Umerkot.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2012.
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