Unions of journalists across Pakistan should raise their voice of concerns over the arrest of the well-known TV host and famed YouTuber @ImranRiazKhan -- Altaf Hussain on Twitter
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Posted on: 5/15/2023
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Unions of journalists across Pakistan should raise their voice of concerns over the arrest of the well-known TV host and famed YouTuber
. According to the reports widely circulated on social media, he has been brutally tortured in custody. This can't be justified under any law or excuse.
Conversely, the law enforcers who abducted the Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf
leaders and activists have also kept them in undisclosed detention centres and despite requirements of the law, none of them has so far been produced in any court of law. This is an absolute crime and negation of the supremacy of the law. The provisions of the country's constitution are very clear on this that the arresting authority must produce the accused before the court within 24 hours of the arrest.
These law enforcing agencies have already been violating the law of the country with sheer discrimination to the MQM leaders and activists. The law enforcers find no impediment while sabotaging the spirit of the law and the constitution.
is the largest party that has suffered from unprecedented arbitrary arrests and custodial executions.
The law enforcers have arrested hundreds of thousands of the MQM activists sans any lawful charges. They don't produce them in any court of law. Their places of custody haven't been shared with the MQM or the aggrieved families. A large number of these activists are still in undisclosed detention centres. Having been tortured to death, their bodies are dumped on deserted lands.
MQM's 25,000 activists have been extrajudicially executed by the military, ISI and paramilitary Rangers in fake encounters and in custody. 1/2
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The number of activists in prisons has exceeded beyond the imagination and they have been denied the right of free and fair trials.
It is natural for me to feel the agony of the aggrieved families when the law enforcers and ISI abduct their men sans any lawful charges. Over this, I can't stay silent. I speak louder and raise my voice of concern. That's why, I've been actively condemning the abductors and siding with the families of those in law enforcers' torture centres. Today, the Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf
leaders and activists, TV hosts, journalists, YouTubers and independent V-logers are facing this fascism, so, I fully sympathise with them, with their families and equally slam the abducting agencies for acting above the country's laws.
The Police and the paramilitary Rangers are neither producing the Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf leaders and activists before any court of law nor are they sharing any safety reports with their families. They have their deep state. They have their choices, not laws.
Like every human who believes in respecting the human rights and the supremacy of the law of the country, I also do condemn the federal and provincial governments and the abductors over their unconstitutional actions which are in actual crimes against humanity.
I demand forthwith production of those Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf leaders and the activists and
who've been in unlawful custody of the ISI before the court of law.
I demand forthwith release of those who were abducted many years ago and enforced to disappear and are kept in undisclosed detention centres.
Those political activists who've been imprisoned without a fair trial must be given the right of the fair trial.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Umar Atta Bandiyal should forthwith set up a judicial commission to probe into the horrific extrajudicial execution of the investigative journalist and TV host slain Arshad Sharif and 73-year-old MQM prof. Dr Hassan Zafar Arif and bring those perpetrators to task.
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