The Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal and provincial law officers, the provincial police chief and others on a petition against the alleged enforced disappearance of another social media activist the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Karachi. Petitioner Rashid Rauf submitted that his brother Mohammad Salman Khan, who was a member of the PTI’s social media team, went to the Karachi Press Club on March 31 to attend a protest demonstration against the illegal detention of other social media activists of the party but he did not return.
He submitted that police were informed about the disappearance but they refused to register an FIR of the incident. He said he has apprehension about the life of his brother who is not being traced, and alleged that he might be kept in unlawful detention by law enforcement agencies.The court was requested to direct the police and other law enforcement agencies to produce the detainee before the court and provide details of cases if any against him.
A division bench, headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto, after the preliminary hearing of the petition, issued notices to the IGP, federal and provincial law officers and others and called their comments on April 10.
The court had earlier called comments from the IGP and others with regard to the enforced disappearance of three other PTI social media activists — Mohammad Arshad Siddiqui, Mudassir Rehman and Fahad Jamal Siddiqui – who had gone missing in last week of March from different parts of Karachi.Plea against death sentence.The SHC on Monday directed the counsel for a petitioner who challenged the death sentence of a banned militant outfit activist by the military court to satisfy the court about the maintainability of the petition.
