London – 4 January 2001
Today, at around 12.45 a.m.,
plain clothed personnel of law enforcement agencies arrested Mohammad Shoaib,
Incharge of MQM Ranchore Line Sector in Karachi. According to details, Mohammad Shoaib was in his office at Finlay
House, I.I.Chundrigar Road, Karachi, when the personnel of law enforcement
agencies raided the office and arrested him.
He was immediately subjected to brutal torture and has been taken to
unknown destination. Despite repeated
efforts of the MQM Coordination Committee his whereabouts are still
unknown.
It is strongly apprehended
and feared that his life is in extreme danger.
It has been the practice of the law enforcement agencies to unlawfully
detain MQM leaders, office bearers, workers, supporters and their family
members. They are then brutally
tortured and forced to sign pre-written confessional statements.
Personal Details:
Mohammad Shoaib 28, son of Ibrahim, resident of Ramswami in Karachi. He is the Incharge of MQM Ranchore Line
Sector.
Muttahida Quami Movement
(MQM) is the third largest political party of Pakistan and the second largest
in the province of Sindh. Since the commencement of the Army Operation on
19 June 1992, against the MQM, more than 15000 MQM leaders, workers and
supporters have been extra-judicially murdered, thousands are languishing in
prison on false and fabricated charges, dozens have been awarded death
sentences, more than 28 workers are reported missing after being unlawfully
arrested, thousands of families have been displaced from their homes and
thousands of workers and supporters have been forced to leave the country and
are living in exile.