Back on the radar: Missing for over a year, Ajmal Waheed returns

Ajmal and his younger brother, Osama, went missing on July 1, 2011, from Korangi.

KARACHI:

Muhammad Ajmal Waheed who had been missing for over a year, has now arrived home safely. However, the whereabouts of his younger brother, Osama Waheed, are still unknown.

Ajmal and his younger brother, Osama, a computer engineer, went missing on July 1, 2011, from Korangi after they returned to the city from Islamabad. While talking to The Express Tribune, Ajmal said, “I had gone to pick Osama up from Adiala jail. After we came back to Karachi, we were about to step into a taxi and that is when we were taken away.”

Osama, along with eight others, had been arrested by the Rawalpindi police on charges that he had assassinated an army surgeon and possessed explosives. The family claimed, however, that law enforcers had picked him up from the Cantonment Railway Station back in September 2008 and illegally detained him for four months. After this, they said, the Rawalpindi police just took the men into their custody.

Amina Batool, Ajmal’s wife, said, “After Osama was acquitted in the cases against him, he was detained in jail for more than three months under maintenance of public order.” She said she had then filed a petition against his further dentition. “After my petition, they [intelligence agencies] officially released Osama. But now they are detaining him unofficially as well.”

Published in The Express Tribune, January 27^th, 2013.