Allama Hassan Zafar begins hunger strike for release of missing Shias

Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi, deputy secretary general, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, has told the media on Thursday (today) that he has begun hunger strike for the release of those Shia Muslims who were subjected to enforced disappearances.

The senior Shia scholar who is leading Fill the Jails Movement and has courted his arrested at a district south police station in Karachi, further said that despite passage of two weeks, nobody from the federal government bothered to pay attention to their legitimate demands.
“The PMLN government is busy in serving the disqualified Nawaz Sharif’s family in a bid to cover up their corruption and they have no time to address the genuine concerns of oppressed citizens of Pakistan,” he said.
Naqvi said that there was no Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz, Maryam Naeaz or Ishaq Dar among the victims of the enforced disappearances and their families hence the PMLN government ignored their legitimate protest and rightful demands.
He said he had to begin hunger strike on Wednesday to stiffen his ongoing protest campaign. He said that now he has hope in the Chief Justice of Pakistan and Army Chief that they would play their much-needed role in the immediate release of the missing Shias.
He said that Fill the Jails Movement would also continue and more leaders would offer themselves for arrest. He reiterated his demand that innocent Shia youths, notables and scholars must be released from illegal captivity or be produced in courts of law if there is any charge against them.