SOS -- LIFE IN DANGER OF MOHAMMAD TARIQ KHAN
On 5 November
2001, heavy contingents of CIA Police, plain clothed armed
personnel of law enforcement agencies and paramilitary rangers
unlawfully arrested Mohammad Tariq son of Mohammad Yaseen, a
worker of MQM Korangi Sector, from Hijrat Colony in Defence
Housing Society, Karachi. He is a former Member of MQM
Korangi Sector Committee. He was immediately taken to
unknown State-run torture cell, where he was brutally tortured
for five days. In total disregard to his constitutional and
human rights, he was not produced before any court of law during
this illegal detention. Moreover, he was subjected to
electric shocks, cigarette burnings, tortured mentally and beaten
physically, etc. After his shifting to Central Prison
Karachi, he was kept in solitary confinement with no recourse to
any judicial remedy.
Mohammad Tariq Khan 38, son of Yaseen Khan, resident of House No
1537, Sector 32-E, Nasir Colony, Karachi, Pakistan. He is a
worker of MQM Unit 69, Sector Korangi.
Alarmingly, on 3 January 2002, at around 4.15 p.m., the personnel
of Korangi Police Station and Zaman Town Police Station, suddenly
arrived at the Central Prison Karachi and took Mohammad Tariq
Khan away to an unknown destination. It should be noted
that to commence yet another MQM Crush Operation, the
Establishment has again brought back the notorious police
officers involved in the extrajudicial killings of more than
15000 MQM leaders, office bearers, workers and supporters since
June 1992. One of the notorious police officer Bahauddin
Babar has been posted as the Station House Officer (SHO) of
Korangi Police Station. Another notorious police officer Mohammad
Bakhsh made Incharge Burglary Cell at Deputy Superintendent of
Polices office in Korangi, is reported to have taken direct
custody of Mohammad Tariq Khan.
Keeping in view the past excesses of these notorious police
officers and their capabilities to extrajudicially execute and
inflict horrific torture upon innocent MQM workers and
supporters, we are extremely concerned and anxious for the life
of Mohammad Tariq Khan. We strongly apprehend that at this
very moment Mohammad Tariq Khan is being brutally tortured and
being compelled to sign a pre-written confessional statement,
prepared by the Authorities, maliciously involving him in illegal
acts so as to malign MQM nationally and internationally.