MYSTERIOUS SHIFTING OF DR FAROOQ SATTAR TO ISLAMABAD TANTAMOUNT TO DENIAL OF HIS FUNDAMENTAL, LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
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– LIFE IN DANGER
MYSTERIOUS SHIFTING
OF DR FAROOQ SATTAR TO ISLAMABAD TANTAMOUNT TO DENIAL OF HIS
FUNDAMENTAL, LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
London – 21 February 2000
According to recent reports, it has been learnt that toady Dr Farooq Sattar, Member of MQM Co-ordination Committee, Parliamentary Leader of the MQM in the Suspended Provincial Assembly of Sindh and former Mayor of Karachi has been mysteriously transferred to Islamabad. He was taken to Islamabad on Flight No 306 at 4 pm Pakistan time. The sudden and unexpected shifting of Dr Farooq Sattar with malicious intentions by the Government strengthens our apprehensions that his life is in extreme danger. We also fear that during his unlawful detention in Islamabad he will be subjected to brutal torture and would be forced to comply with the demands of the present Government of Pakistan. Dr Farooq Sattar was to be produced on 22 February 2000, in the Anti Terrorist Court and was to be charged in fabricated and false cases. Moreover, the mysterious manner in which he has been shifted without any prior notice to his lawyers, family members or even the courts tantamount to slaying of judiciary and denial of his fundamental, legal and constitutional rights.
It should be recalled that the Authorities, unlawfully arrested Dr Farooq Sattar, Member of the Co-ordination Committee of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), its Parliamentary Leader in the suspended Provincial Assembly of Sindh and former Mayor of the city of Karachi on Friday, 26 November 1999 soon after, his Press Conference, at Karachi Press Club. During his Press Conference, he accounted the details of his reforms financially benefiting the KMC (Karachi Metropolitan Corporation) and the province while he was the Minister for Local Bodies and "Katchi Abadis" during the estranged coalition government with the PML (Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz Group).
Dr Farooq Sattar was first kept in confinement in the Cantonment area of Malir under heavy security. On 7 February 2000, he was shifted to a makeshift room (8ft x 6ft) in a neglected part of a government building. The Authorities did not even allowed visits by his relatives and legal representatives on a regular basis.
Apparently, Dr Sattar’s life is in danger. Having carried out extra-judicial murders the State has adopted a novel method to eliminate the MQM cadre.
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