Baloch political activists have blamed the Pakistan Army for using “excessive force” against civilians as an operation has been intensified in Balochistan to rescue six young footballers abducted in the Dera Bugti area last Saturday.
The six football players were on their way to Sibi to compete in the qualifying round of the All Pakistan Chief Minister Gold Cup Football competition when they were kidnapped by unidentified armed guys in the Kachhi canal area of Sui Tehsil in Dera Bugti district.
The organisers of the Minority Rights and Aurat March held their second protest at Teen Talwar in Karachi’s Clifton on Monday to condemn the failure of the police and the caretaker Sindh cabinet in ensuring the recovery of kidnap victims, Sagar Kumar and Priya Kumari, Dawn reported.
The civil society on the call of the Hindu Panjaat continued their protests and vowed not to dissociate themselves from the ongoing sit-ins till the recovery of all hostages.
Thousands of citizens took out a peace procession and staged a sit-in at Ghantaghar Chowk in Kandhkot town on the second consecutive day in protest against police’s failure to recover the hostages, including several members of the minority Hindu community in Pakistan’s Sukkur, Dawn reported
Amnesty International slammed Pakistan over the multiple cases of enforced disappearance, and secret and arbitrary detentions and called out the authorities to take action and work towards ending this practice.
Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader and federal minister, Shireen Mazari alleged that police personnel and people dressed in plain clothes, “abducted” her daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir from her house in an overnight raid on Sunday, Geo News reported.
Justice Sultan Tanvir Ahmad was hearing a plea filed by Hafeezullah Khan Niazi, father of the detainee, who in his petition submitted to the court that the abduction and detention of the Niazi is against the statutory provisions as embedded in Section 61 of CrPC which states that the person
The District Police Officer (DPO), Waqar Ahmed, while giving details in a press conference on Friday said that unidentified assailants who were on two motorcycles abducted Malik Ghulam Habib Mehsud, the brother of ex-IG of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Salahuddin Mehsud, while he was on his way
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