MOHAMMAD RAFIQ, AN MQM WORKER EXTRA-JUDICIALLY MURDERED BY POLICE IN KARACHI

Early this morning, Mohammad Rafiq 24, son of Mohammad Rasheed, an MQM worker of Unit 164, Sector Liaquatabad, was extra-judicially murdered in a fake "police encounter" by SHO Sarwar Commando of Liaquatabad Police Station.

According to first information received here, ASI Nasir of Liaquatabad Police Station on the instructions of SHO Sarwar Commando arrested the father of Mohammad Rafiq from his house. He was brutally tortured in the Liaquatabad Police Station to divulge the whereabouts of his son. Mohammad Rafiq was arrested two days ago from his temporary residence at Rafi Bungalows in Malir, Karachi.

It was announced today in a police handout that a police party headed by SHO Sarwar Commando was conducting snap checking at Teen Hatti Bridge early this morning when they signalled two bike riders to stop. However, the other party started firing. On this the SHO retaliated and the person driving the bike fell on the road and died on the spot, while his accomplice managed to flee in injured condition.

The fact is that Mohammad Rafiq was arrested two days earlier. How is it possible that he was riding on the motorbike at the time of so-called "police encounter"? It is, therefore, abundantly clear that he was severally tortured and extra-judicially killed while in police custody.

Since the imposition of Governor Rule in Sindh, more than 21 MQM workers have been ruthlessly murdered while in custody or extra-judicially on the instruction of the Government of Nawaz Sharif