HYDERABAD: Two more bodies of nationalist workers were dumped on Super Highway on Monday as parts of Sindh remained shut for two consecutive days to protest these enforced disappearances.
The slain persons, who were thrown near Nooriabad, have been identified as Sawrech Peerzada and Wajid Ali Langha. Their bodies bore marks of torture, according to Dr Waseem, who conducted the post-mortem at Civil Hospital, Hyderabad. Both the deceased were workers of the banned outfit, Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), which is blamed for blasts at railway tracks across Sindh.
According to Peerzada's father, Lutuf Peerzada, his son had parted ways with JSMM and had joined Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz before he was whisked away from Karachi on September 11. Lutuf told that at the November 27 hearing in Karachi, the Sindh High Court ordered the state's attorney to produce Peerzada at the next date of hearing slated for December 2.
Meanwhile, Wajid's brother Abid Langah claimed that his brother was taken away from his shop in the Pirpi area of Gulshan-e-Hadeed on August 13 by the Steel Town police and men in plainclothes. However, both the police and Rangers denied during the SHC hearing that the boy was in their custody.
At least eight tortured bodies with similar patterns of torture and gunshot have been dumped in different parts of Sindh during the month of November. Five of these bodies, including two belonging to nationalist workers, were thrown on Super Highway.
The nationalist parties have identified Asif Panhwar, Paryal Shah and Waheed Lashari, in addition to Peerzada and Wajid, as their workers. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's regional director, Dr Ashothama Luhano, pointed out a change in the trend of the detention and killings of nationalist workers. "It seems the agencies have decided that they wouldn't leave any detained person alive," he claimed. "The torture and killings are meant to harass those aspiring to join the ranks and the ones already involved in subversive activities."
Published in The Express Tribune, December 2nd, 2014.
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