HIGHHANDEDNESS OF FEDERAL ADVISOR SYED GHAUS ALI SHAH TO FORCIBLY CHANGE THE ALLEGIANCE OF MOHAMMAD YOUSUF KHAN MPA, MEMBER OF PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF SINDH BELONGING TO THE MQM

24 July 1999 - London

Today, at around 3.40 a.m., the personnel of Samnabad Police Station along with other plain clothed personnel of law enforcement agencies in police mobile vans and other private cars (a red jeep and two white cars) raided the residence of Mohammad Yousuf Khan, Member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh and Member of Co-ordination Committee of MQM. The raiding party forcibly entered into the house, cut off all the phone lines and arrested his son Sohail Yusuf. He was immediately subjected to torture and taken to the Samnabad Police Station. At the Police Station he was forced by the police to make a telephone call to the house of Riaz Mustafa to call him for a meeting at the Chandni Chowk, Nazimabad, Karachi. Riaz Mustafa, brother of MQM Sector Member Rashid Mustafa was immediately arrested on his arrival at the Chandni Chowk. Both Sohail Yousuf and Riaz Mustafa were then shifted to the Jauharabad Police Station, where they are being unlawfully detained and subjected to inhuman torture.

This act of highhandedness under the Governor Rule in Sindh, led by the Federal Advisor Syed Ghaus Ali Shah, is to pressurise Mohammad Yousuf Khan to change his allegiance from the MQM to join the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Group. This tactics was the only agenda of Mohammad Nawaz Sharif for Sindh when he had appointed Ghaus Ali Shah to form a Muslim League Government in Sindh through intimidation, blackmail and horse trading.

It should be noted that during Peoples Party Government, former MQM Lady Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, Mrs Feroza Begum was also forced to join the Pakistan Peoples Party cabinet while her son Osama Qadri was in the Government detention. Mr Yusuf Khan while in unlawful detention during the PPP Government had developed gangrene due to torture and severe conditions of detention. His leg was recently amputated rendering him incapacitated physically

Sohail Yousuf 33, son of Mohammad Yousuf Khan, is a resident of Federal B. Area, Karachi. He is a worker of MQM Unit 144, Sector Federal B. Area.