Govt warned of countrywide protest

KARACHI Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan warned the Government of a countrywide protest if 10 Shiite persons, abducted allegedly by security agencies, were not released. The families staged protest against 10 Shiite missing persons abducted from different areas of the city within 10 days by the law enforcement agencies. Families appealed the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take action against illegal detention of the 10 young men and probe the whereabouts of the missing persons. As per detail, Maulana Hasan Zafar Naqvi, leader of the Majlis-e-Wahdat-Muslimeen Pakistan, along the families of 10 Shia men held a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Monday. Maulana Naqvi said that since the day of Ashura, law enforcement agencies conducted raids at different localities including Jafar Tyaar, North Karachi, Federal B Area, Orangi Town, New Karachi and Cant Station and picked up several people without any charge. Law enforcement agencies unable to stop the sectarian killing claimed the lives of various people including doctors, engineers and other intellectuals but started the operation against Shia community picked up various people without any reason, he said.

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