Miscarriage of justice: Amina Masood Janjua to lead rally in Islamabad
DHRP’s Janjua encourages political and religious parties to join her protest rally for rescuing missing persons.
KARACHI:
Amina Masood Janjua, chairperson of the Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP), announced that families of people who have gone missing will hold a rally from Islamabad’s D-chowk to Parliament Houses on April 15.
Janjua said this during her telephonic address to a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Monday, and appealed to political and religious parties to join her in the struggle for rescuing the “missing persons,” as they are popularly referred to.
Women, children, and the elderly had earlier braved scorching heat for two hours, and shouted slogans against the present government, former president Pervez Musharraf, intelligence agencies and the US.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Saleem Zia and Nehal Hashmi, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui and others attended the demonstration and accused President Zardari and the Musharraf government for kidnapping people from different parts of the country on the wishes of American officials after 9/11.
The PML-N leaders said that their party would support the cause till the whereabouts of all these people were known. “We are not here to garner political support. This is a human cause, and every sensible Pakistani stands beside the families whose members have been kidnapped for no reason,” said Hashmi.
Zia added that such heinous steps are always taken when a dictator is in power.
JI’s Dr Siddiqui added, “The Chief Justice of Pakistan had promised that missing persons would be recovered. The nation now asks him to fulfill his commitment.”
Muhammad Hussain Baloch, DHRP’s Karachi coordinator, informed The Express Tribune that all political and religious parties have been invited to join the rally on April 15. “We will try to go as close to the parliament as possible. We hope that all political parties will support our struggle.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2012.
Amina Masood Janjua, chairperson of the Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP), announced that families of people who have gone missing will hold a rally from Islamabad’s D-chowk to Parliament Houses on April 15.
Janjua said this during her telephonic address to a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Monday, and appealed to political and religious parties to join her in the struggle for rescuing the “missing persons,” as they are popularly referred to.
Women, children, and the elderly had earlier braved scorching heat for two hours, and shouted slogans against the present government, former president Pervez Musharraf, intelligence agencies and the US.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Saleem Zia and Nehal Hashmi, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui and others attended the demonstration and accused President Zardari and the Musharraf government for kidnapping people from different parts of the country on the wishes of American officials after 9/11.
The PML-N leaders said that their party would support the cause till the whereabouts of all these people were known. “We are not here to garner political support. This is a human cause, and every sensible Pakistani stands beside the families whose members have been kidnapped for no reason,” said Hashmi.
Zia added that such heinous steps are always taken when a dictator is in power.
JI’s Dr Siddiqui added, “The Chief Justice of Pakistan had promised that missing persons would be recovered. The nation now asks him to fulfill his commitment.”
Muhammad Hussain Baloch, DHRP’s Karachi coordinator, informed The Express Tribune that all political and religious parties have been invited to join the rally on April 15. “We will try to go as close to the parliament as possible. We hope that all political parties will support our struggle.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2012.