Police warned of strong protest if kidnapped journalist not recovered
SUKKUR: Hundreds of activists of different political parties and journalists of Sukkur on Wednesday took out a protest rally against the police, who have failed to recover journalist Shahbaz Khan Pathan and his friend Naveed Mangi, kidnapped on March 11, 2004, from in front of their houses in Old Sukkur.
Activists of PPP, Jeay Sindh, Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, and 35 journalists of Sukkur participated in the rally. The rally, after marching through thoroughfares of the city, reached the DIGP, Sukkur office, where besides the office-bearers of Sukkur press club, leaders of different political parties addressed the rally.
Office-bearers of the press club, Jawed Memon, Shahid Ali, Syed Mushtaq Gilani and Shabbir Bhutto said the police had assured the journalists that their colleague Shahbaz Pathan and his friend Naveed Mangi would be recovered within 48 hours. They said during the visit of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali to Sukkur, IGP Sindh Syed Kamal Shah had told the journalists that the kidnappers have been identified and the hostages will be recovered within 48 hours, but nothing has been done as yet.
The journalists, through a resolution, demanded to suspend the SHO, “C” section police station, Sukkur. The journalists said that police, despite knowing the identity of the dacoits, failed to recover the kidnapped persons. The journalists, in a meeting, decided that if the hostages were not recovered within 72 hours, then the journalists would boycott official news, and initiate agitation throughout Sindh.
Source: The News
Date:3/11/2004
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