Karachi: The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has urged federal and Sindh governments to disclose whereabouts of nearly 14,000 missing persons arrested in the last seven months during Karachi operation.
He said as per Karachi police reports submitted in the National Assembly almost 14,000 people were arrested, but no record is available of them, while more than 200 have been killed in suspicious and reportedly extra judicial killings during the last seven months in the name of the Karachi operation.
Burney said that during the last 7 months of Karachi operation, nearly 14,000 persons were arrested on several charges. On the other hand, the two jails in Karachi have received only 700 suspects. The question is where are the rest of thousands missing after their arrest in Karachi?
He said the police have not mentioned the whereabouts of the remaining 13,000 arrested persons.
Burney said that Ansar Burney Trust International is concerned about the large number of missing persons after their arrest by the police and law enforcement authorities and the extrajudicial killings.
He said in several cases the families of arrested persons claimed that the victims were arrested from their homes but later it was announced that they were killed in an encounter or died in detention.
International Ambassador for Peace and Human Rights, Burney condemned gross violation of human rights and asked federal government, Karachi Police and Sindh government as to why suspects have not been presented in any court of law after arrest during the last seven months nor have the family members been informed of their whereabouts nor have they been allowed to meet them.
He said Ansar Burney Trust International has no sympathy with hardened criminals and terrorists and fully in favour of operation against hardened criminals, but it is the sole responsibility of the federal and provincial governments to either produce them in courts or release the arrested innocent persons or reveal their whereabouts immediately.
He said even nobody knows where the arms and ammunition are that Karachi police say they have recovered from criminals instead of producing the same in courts.
