Pakistani Security Forces And ISI Raid Sindhi Leader’s House

Pakistani security forces and ISI raid Sindhi leader’s house, threatens the family. Pakistani security forces (Rangers) in more than 20 vehicles and ISI personnel in five vehicles, who were in civilian clothes, raided the house of Sindhi leader Lala Aslam Pathan in Shikarpur town in Sindh on Wednesday.

Lala Aslam is the senior vice president of JE Sindh Muttahida Mahaj (JSMM), a nationalist party in Sindh. JSMM President Shafi Barfat (living in Germany) said, Rangers and ISI personnel threatened his family and searched the entire locality to arrest him or his sons. He was unsuccessful in capturing Lala due to his absence at home and the neighborhood.

In a statement, the JSMM strongly condemned the cowardly raid at Lala Aslam Pathan’s house. Burfat said, ‘Pakistani fascist LAAS (law enforcement agencies) have been taking a brutal crackdown against the Sindhi national movement for the last several years.

Following the announcement by JSMM to mark ‘Day of Slavery’ and ‘Black Day’ on 14 August, a round of arrests of Sindhi national activists has begun in the state. It added, “The siege and raid of the JSMM central leader Lala Aslam Pathan’s house is part of the state’s anti-Sindh conspiracy, which is condemnable.”

A large number of political activists and other intellectuals are forcibly abducted in Sindh and Baluchistan and put in secret detention centers by security agencies. Many of them were killed and their mutilated bodies were found in isolated places. The family members of these missing persons have been continuously protesting in Pakistan, but the government is not releasing them.

Meanwhile

Women journalists and commentators in Pakistan have raised their voice against the government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan over online attacks incited by government officials against them.

A tweet from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan stated that women journalists say that Ver is not actively using the online platform. This reduces public confidence in journalism. The tweet by the Human Rights Commission was in response to a tweet from a journalist that issued a joint statement by more than 20 female journalists.

The joint statement said that the targets of these attacks are women with differing viewpoints and whose reports have been important to the government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, and most notably to combat the coronavirus epidemic.