PAKISTAN: Appeal

'Extra-judicial Executions and Disappearances'

Dozens of MQM leaders, office bearers, workers and supporters have not been seen since June 1992, when they were arrested by the security forces from the urban centres of Sindh, southern province of Pakistan.

Scores of MQM leaders, office bearers, workers and supporters have been extra-judicially executed in the urban centres of Sindh since June 1992, when an Army Operation Clean-up was launched to physically eliminate the Mohajirs in general and MQM leaders, workers, supporters and their relatives in particular. In many cases these MQM leaders, workers, supporters and their family members have been arrested, taken from their homes and shot, their bodies later abandoned. These extra-judicial executions were later dubbed as "police encounter" by the Authorities. Others have mysteriously "disappeared" from the State custody.

Please write, calling for a prompt, independent and impartial inquiry into the arrest and subsequent "disappearance" of MQM leaders, workers, supporters and their family members. Urge the government to investigate all reports of "disappearances" and extra-judicial executions particularly in the urban centres of Sindh, southern province of Pakistan. Ask for the findings of these investigations to be made public and for those responsible to be brought to justice.

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PAKISTAN

Policy of the Nawaz Sharif Government towards Mohajir Nation

• Treat the entire Mohajir Nation as criminals

• Do not even spare the Mohajir Women

• Not even Mohajir children are spared from the brutalities of the Nawaz Sharif Government

• Eliminate and annihilate Mohajirs from Pakistan

• Innocent Mohajir children are also being targeted

• No matter what age group they belong -- kill them (Mohajirs)

• Provide License to Kill to Karachi Police to physically eliminate MQM leaders, workers, supporters and their family members

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SLAYING OF JUDICIARY IN PAKISTAN

• NAWAZ SHARIF IS THE JURY, JUDGE AND THE EXECUTIONER

• THE POLITICAL VENDETTA TRANSLATES AND REPLACES THE JUDICIARY

• SPECIAL ANTI TERRORIST COURTS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BY NAWAZ SHARIF GOVERNMENT TO PHYSICALLY ELIMINATE THE MOHAJIRS IN GENERAL AND MQM IN PARTICULAR

• 44 MQM MEMBERS HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY THE GOVERNMENT ADMINISTERED SPECIAL COURTS "KANGAROO COURTS" IN SINDH

• JUDICIARY IS NOT INDEPENDENT AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE NAWAZ SHARIF GOVERNMENT AND ESTABLISHMENT

WE DEMAND:

• RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL

• IMMEDIATE END TO THE POLICY OF DISCRIMINATION

• IMPARTIAL, UNBIASED AND INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL SYSTEM

• ABOLISHMENT OF THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ANTI TERRORIST COURTS ESTABLISHED TO SERVE THE POLICY OF THE "IDENTITY ELIMINATION" OF MOHAJIRS

• END TO THE AUTOCRATIC AND TOTALITARIAN RULE OF NAWAZ SHARIF AND RESTORATION OF TRUE DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN

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PAKISTAN:

WHERE DEMOCRACY IS SUPERSEDED BY AUTOCRACY

On 30^th October 1998, the Government of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan suspended the elected Provincial Assembly of Sindh and imposed the undemocratic "Governor Rule" in the province. Since then the Provincial Assembly remains ineffective. Elected representatives of the MQM with huge public mandate have been paralysed to carry out their constitutional duties.

Furthermore, three elected members of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, namely, Mr. Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari Advocate MPA, Mr. Wakeel Ahmed Jamali MPA and Mr. Afzal Anwar MPA belonging to the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) have been unlawfully arrested, brutally tortured and imprisoned for no legal reason at all.

OUR DEMANDS:

• ABOLISH THE UNDEMOCRATIC "GOVERNOR RULE" IN SINDH PROVINCE, SOUTHERN PAKISTAN

• EFFECTIVELY RESTORE THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED SINDH PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY

• RESPECT THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE OF URBAN CENTRES OF SINDH

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PAKISTAN:

• WHERE BARBARIC POLICE RULE IS ENDEMIC

• ELECTED PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF SINDH SUSPENDED

• GOVERNOR RULE IMPOSED IN THE SINDH PROVINCE ONLY

• ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF SINDH BELONGING TO THE MQM, MR. SHOAIB AHMED BUKHARI, MR. WAKEEL AHMED JAMALI AND MR. AFZAL ANWAR ARE JAILED ON FABRICATED CHARGES AND INHUMANLY TORTURED

• THOUSANDS OF MQM LEADERS, WORKERS, SUPPORTERS AND THEIR RELATIVES ARE LANGUISHING IN JAILS UNDER SUBHUMAN CONDITIONS, WITHOUT TRIAL

PAKISTAN

NAWAZ SHARIF'S DESPOTIC RULE:

• BARBARIC PUNJABI POLICE CONTROL IN SINDH PROVINCE, SOUTHERN PAKISTAN

• 14 EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS IN POLICE CUSTODY IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS FOR POLITICAL VICTIMISATION

• ELECTED MQM MEMBERS OF SINDH ASSEMBLY UNLAWFULLY JAILED AND TORTURED ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES

• FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF MOHAJIR NATION DENIED

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PAKISTAN:

• WHERE LAW OF THE JUNGLE PREVAILS…

• 'KANGAROO COURTS' IN SINDH SENTENCED 44 MQM WORKERS TO DEATH

• THE JUDICIARY IN PAKISTAN IS RIDDLED WITH CORRUPTION AND NEPOTISM

• POLICE VERSION SUPERSEDES CORROBORATED EVIDENCE

• NAWAZ SHARIF GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS IMPUNITY TO POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN EXTORTION AND BARBARISM

• POLICE CARRIES OUT KILLINGS OF INNOCENT CITIZENS WITH IMPUNITY

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PAKISTAN

MORE THAN 20000 INNOCENT MOHAJIRS KILLED EXTRA-JUDICIALLY IN SINDH, PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN BY THE POLICE AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SINCE 19 JUNE 1992

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FACTS

• POLICE AND PARAMILITARY RANGERS KILLING INNOCENT MOHAJIR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

• MOHAJIR LOCALITIES IN THE URBAN CENTRES OF SINDH ARE CORDONED OFF -- WATER AND POWER SUPPLY DISCONNECTED FOR DAYS

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HIGHLIGHTS OF NAWAZ SHARIF'S RULE SINCE FEBRUARY 1997

• OVER 300 MQM OFFICE BEARERS, WORKERS AND SUPPORTERS MURDERED EXTRA-JUDICIALLY AND SEVERAL HUNDRED INJURED

• WIDESPREAD SUBJUGATION OF JUDICIARY, MUZZLING OF PRESS, CORRUPT PARLIAMENT, GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND ADMINISTRATION

• THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE BECOME WIDOWS AND ORPHANS

• THOUSANDS OF MOHAJIRS LEFT DESTITUTE AND TERRIFIED

• UNACCOUNTABLE VICTIMS OF RAPE BY THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND THEIR SPONSORED GOVERNMENT TERRORISTS

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MILESTONES OF NAWAZ SHARIF GOVERNMENT IN PAKISTAN

NAWAZ SHARIF IN HIS CURRENT TENURE HAS BROKEN ALL THE PREVIOUS RECORDS OF RUTHLESSNESS AND CORRUPTION

• GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

• SLAYING OF JUDICIARY

• EXTRA-JUDICIAL MURDERS OF MQM WORKERS

• IMPOSITION OF DICTATORIAL GOVERNOR RULE IN SINDH

• SETTING UP OF KANGAROO COURTS

• PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE

• 44 DEATH SENTENCES ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES

• PLUNDER OF NATIONAL EXCHEQUER

• ESTABLISHMENT OF "RAIWIND" -- A STATE WITHIN STATE

• CALLOUS MURDERS OF MORE THAN 300 MQM WORKERS AND SUPPORTERS

• PLANNED MURDERS OF RENOWNED PERSONALITIES

• BRINGING THE COUNTRY TO THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY AND ECONOMIC DISASTER

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DISCRIMINATION

PAKISTAN

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MOHAJIRS -- KARACHI

GROSS AND BLATANT DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN AGAINST THE MOHAJIRS AND KARACHI WHICH CONTRIBUTES 72 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL REVENUE

HERE ARE FIGURES GIVEN IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN ON 8^TH JULY 1999 REGARDING DISBURSEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT FUNDS DURING 1998-99

THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE. THE RULERS OF PAKISTAN HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE MOHAJIRS FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS

WE ASK THE WORLD TO TAKE NOTICE

COMPEL THE GOVERNMENT OF NAWAZ SHARIF TO DO JUSTICE