Sindh Assembly: Sabzwari raises concerns about missing MQM workers

Demands that govt inform MQM which agencies have their workers in custody.

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) representative Faisal Sabzwari presented a list of missing MQM workers in the Sindh Assembly on Monday and expressed concern about their whereabouts, Express News correspondent Vakeel Rao reported.

Sabzwari, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly, claimed that five MQM workers were kidnapped by persons dressed in plain clothes the night before.

He asked that the government tell them which agencies have taken MQM workers into custody so that they can make an appeal regarding the issue in court.

The list mentions 45 MQM workers who have allegedly gone missing since the targeted operation started in Karachi on September 7, last year.

The targeted operation had started in Karachi after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the metropolitan in September in a bid to devise a strategy to curb violence.

Sabzwari also claimed that the bodies of six of the men on the list were found during that period.

MQM representatives have claimed on many occasions that their workers are being made the target of unjust and illegal arrests under the ruse of the operation.