Family members of missing persons protest outside the Mehfil Shah-i-Khorasan mosque in this file photo. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star
KARACHI: The Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons on Friday ended a sit-in against ‘enforced disappearances’ near mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah after 28 days following “successful talks” with representatives of the government and state institutions as “some persons” were released while “assurances” were given for the release of more persons, according to the organizers of the protest.
Speaking at a press conference, religious scholars and relatives of the missing persons said that they held talks with the government and state institutions’ representatives during which deadlock also occurred but at the end “some missing persons were released.”
Karachi
May 1, 2021
Families of ‘missing Shia persons’ on Friday called off their sit-in, saying that they took the decision in view of the rising Covid-19 cases as well as after holding successful talks with the government and security agencies.
The announcement of calling off the sit-in was made by leaders of the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons during a press conference at the sit-in camp outside the Mazar-e-Quaid.
The action committee had started the sit-in on April 2. Speakers, including Allama Syed Ahmed Iqbal Rizvi, Allama Baqir Zaidi, the father of missing person Ali Haider, and the wife of missing person Abrar Hassan, said at the press conference that they had been holding a peaceful and organised protest sit-in for the past 28 days without disturbing anything and their protest even did not impede vehicular traffic.
Freedom is destiny of people of Indian occupied Kashmir, says MWM
National
February 1, 2021
LAHORE: The central leadership of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has decided to observe Kashmir Solidarity Week from Saturday. The announcement for this was made during a news conference that was held at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday.
The MWM’s Sindh General Secretary Allama Baqir Zaidi, Deputy General Secretary Ali Hussain Naqvi and other leaders said that the purpose of this is to express their condemnation of the barbaric acts of India in the occupied Kashmir and to voice their support for Kashmiri Muslims.
They said that the discriminatory policies and actions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government against the minorities living in India have undermined the country’s integrity and survival.
National
February 1, 2021
The central leadership of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has decided to observe Kashmir Solidarity Week from Saturday. The announcement for this was made during a news conference that was held at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday.
The MWM’s Sindh General Secretary Allama Baqir Zaidi, Deputy General Secretary Ali Hussain Naqvi and other leaders said that the purpose of this is to express their condemnation of the barbaric acts of India in the occupied Kashmir and to voice their support for Kashmiri Muslims.
They said that the discriminatory policies and actions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government against the minorities living in India have undermined the country’s integrity and survival.
MWM leader slams hike in prices of petroleum products
Karachi
January 17, 2021
Allama Baqir Zaidi, secretary general of the Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, Sindh, has slammed the latest hike in prices of petroleum products.
âInflation is on the rise. Due to poor economic policies of the government, the prices of common food items have skyrocketed. It is no less painful for the middle class to make ends meet. In such a situation, the decision to increase petrol prices is the worst,â he said in a statement on Saturday.
Allama Zaidi said that the administrative structure of the country had been left at the mercy of circumstances instead of running it under a systematic plan.