Pakistan Crime
Pakistan: Rights activist 'taken away' by unknown men from Karachi
Karachi: A human rights activist was taken away by four unknown men in civvies, along with some uniformed policemen, from his book shop in Urdu Bazaar region of Karachi city of Pakistan, media reports said on Monday.
They said that Fahim Habib Baloch was sitting at his book shop, Ilm-u-Adab Publishers, on Friday evening when he was taken away, reports Dawn News.
Quoting witnesses, they said that the men in civvies politely asked Mr Baloch as to whether he had sent books to Germany.
They told him that their senior sitting in his vehicle parked outside wanted to meet him.
They took him and since then his whereabouts were not known, the friends and rights activists told Dawn News.
Parveen Naz of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) told Dawn News that Baloch, also a member of the rights body, had been publishing the Sada-i-Balochistan magazine.
She said Baloch’s cousin, Umme Habib, who is also a lawyer, had approached the Preedy police station but they refused to receive her written complaint. Later, she sent the application through a courier company.
Preedy SHO Mohammed Sajjad Khan told Dawn they did not receive any application.
He said that the police were aware of the report regarding disappearance of one Fahim Baloch.
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