ISLAMABAD - The Commission on Missing Persons has also separately started investigation into cases of 40 missing MQM's workers on the request of United Nations Working Group on Enforced Involuntary Disappearance to ascertain genuineness of the cases.
The commission started investigation into the forwarded cases of almost same nature with all possible angles. "I am leaving for Karachi to investigate into the cases of special nature related to Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM)," said Commission on Missing Persons Head Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal while talking to The Nation.
The commission members will carry threadbare probe into the MQM's missing persons' cases to dispose of as earlier as possible. "The body will investigate the real nature of missing persons," he respond, sans sharing further details.
Muttahida Quaumi Movement (MQM) in and outside the parliament has many times raised the matter related to their missing workers of different areas. Apart from alleged target killing of their workers, the MQM members have complained about not giving value to their genuine issues.
"We have expressed our concerns on a number of times but no proper attention was given to this matter," said a MQM senior lawmaker Dr Farooq Sattar, who is currently in London, while talking to The Nation.
When asked about the number of missing members of MQM, he said that over 90 members of MQM have been missing. "Over 30 cases are chronic and remaining 60 may be in the custody of some law enforcement agencies," said an MQM legislator. He said that over 40 MQM's workers were also found dead in extra judicial killings. "We have a number of times raised our concerns to concerned authorities but no proper action was taken," Sattar said, informing there were three categories of law enforcement, including Rangers, police and plain cloth law enforcement agency staff. "Plain clothes staff is comparatively dangerous as they never give clue about the location from where the person is picked up and placed," he said. This commission on missing persons is already dealing with around 1,300 cases from different areas of the country, which have been pending for last many months. As the commission has disposed of nearly 1,300 complicated cases of different natures but 1,223 are still pending with it. In Pakistan, 212 from Punjab, 169 from Sindh, 653 from KP, 104 from Balochistan are still pending.
The commission during the investigation has also deleted the cases which were falling into the category of kidnapping for ransom, rival group clashes etc.