Heirs of the forcedly disappeared persons start three-day long protest sit-in & hunger strike camp in front of Karachi Press Club
KARACHI, April 29 (SABAH): The heirs of the forcedly disappeared persons have started three-day long protest sit-in and hunger strike camp in front of the Karachi Press Club on Saturday.
The sit-in and hunger strike camp has been started under the leadership of Defense of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR) Chairperson Amina Masood Janjua.
According to the press release issued by DHR, the heirs of the forcedly disappeared persons have demanded of the government to return their near and dear ones. The heirs of the missing persons have vowed to continue their struggle until and unless the last missing person is recovered.
On the occasion Amina Masood Janjua said that the heirs of the missing persons ask question that till today no law has been changed in the country? Even today the Pakistani citizens are forcedly disappeared without any law. She said that her husband Masood Janjua and Faisal Faraz were forcedly disappeared on 30th July 2005 while going to Peshawar from Rawalpindi. Amina Masood Janjua said that she knocked the door of courts, assemblies, president and prime minister but it did not bring any positive results.
She said that the supervisor of the hunger strike camp is Sajid, whose son Hafiz Musab went missing on 28th October 2014. She said that the government functionaries should take steps on this serious issue, adding that in this regard many times the sit-in was staged by the DHR at the D-Chowk in Islamabad but this remained useless.