The kidnapping of MQM workers is a message from Pakistani security agencies that any show of allegiance to Altaf Hussain will be met with a brutal response, says Aveek Sen.
On August 2, the Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary force, raided the home of Muttahida Quami Movement central coordination committee member Rehan Nasreen in Karachi. In her absence, the Rangers arrested her husband and took him to an undisclosed location.
The police in Mirpurkhas in Pakistan's Sindh province raided the homes of Azra Baloch and Tasleem Bibi, two women MQM workers. Both women were taken to the Ghareebabad police station and according to witnesses, allegedly tortured by the police.
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