SOS - LIFE IN DANGER
Karachi - 9 July 2000
Syed Nadir Shah, age: 35 years, Incharge of MQM Unit 164, Sector Liaquatabad,
is being brutally tortured in the custody of the Police. According to details,
Syed Nadir Shah along with his brother-in-law Rizwan Uddin and a local estate
agent Anwar was arrested from his hiding place in Quetta on 14 June 2000. He
has been living in hiding due to persistent unlawful raids upon his house in
Karachi. At around 4.30 p.m., heavy contingent of the personnel of Police and
other law enforcement agencies raided the hiding place at Phase-3, Shahbaz Town
in Quetta. They ransacked the house, manhandled the residents and immediately
subjected Syed Nadir Shah and Rizwan Uddin to brutal torture. Both were
blindfolded and taken to unknown destination. During detention, Syed Nadir Shah
was hung upside down and furiously beaten. His beard was so barbarically torn
that the skin also peeled along causing severe pain and bruise. For a whole
week he was not allowed to sleep and continuously tortured. As a result, he is
in a very bad condition and cannot even walk. The same treatment was meted out
to his brother-in-law Rizwan Uddin.
As in the past, Syed Nadir Shah has since then not been presented before any
court of law. He is in a very bad medical condition and, therefore, is strongly
apprehended that his life is in extreme danger.
Most recently on 29 June 2000, Gulzar Ahmed, Incharge of MQM Unit 31, Sector-H,
Hyderabad was extrajudicially murdered in an ambush attack in Hyderabad by the
personnel of Police. The recent uncalled for crackdown against the MQM leaders,
workers and supporters is the continuation of the policy of the Establishment
to crush the MQM and physically eliminate all those associated with the MQM.
Since the commencement of the Army Operation against the MQM on 19 June 1992,
more than 15000 innocent MQM leaders, workers and supporters have been brutally
and extrajudicially murdered and thousands are languishing in prisons on false
and fabricated charges.