Karachi
– 18 November 2000
Shakeel
Ahmed Shaikh 32, son of Zahoor Ahmed Shaikh, an MQM worker of Unit 159, Sector
Liaquatabad, abducted and ruthlessly murdered by the personnel of law
enforcement agencies in Karachi.
According to report, Shakeel Ahmed Sheikh was abducted on 15 November
2000, by the personnel of law enforcement agencies. He was kept in custody at unknown destination and brutally
tortured. After severely torturing him
for two days, he was shot dead. His
dead body was dumped near a house E-35/1 Jehangir Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Torture marks were visible all over his
body. A bullet was fired at his head
from point blank range causing his death.
Shakeel
Ahmed Shaikh was an employee in the Public Health Department. Before 1996, Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh lived in
Hyderabad. Because of numerous illegal
raids upon his residence and harassment to his family members by the personnel
of law enforcement agencies, he shifted to Karachi along with his wife. In Karachi, he was residing in the
Liaquatabad Area along with his wife and a three-month-old daughter. Prior to his abduction, he was seen leaving
the residence of his in-laws in Jamshed Quarter Area, Karachi.
Muttahida
Quami Movement (MQM) is the third largest political party of Pakistan and the
second largest in the province of Sindh.
More than 15000 MQM leaders, workers and supporters have been murdered
extrajudicially since the commencement of the Army Operation on 19 June 1992,
to crush the MQM, the sole representative political party of over 30 million
Mohajirs.