Security Forces (SFs) on June 27, allegedly abducted and disappeared Akash Taggarh, a human rights activist from Larkana District of Sindh, who is also the brother of a missing student, Kashif Taggarh, reports The Balochistan Post. The Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh (VMPS) said in a statement that the state operation against nationalist activists continues for the seventh consecutive day by Pakistani forces in Sindh. According to the VMPS, Aakash Taggarh has been leading protests in various cities of Sindh including Larkana for the safe recovery of his brother and other missing persons for last many years. Taggarh’s father said; “he was also picked up and disappeared by Pakistani forces in plain clothes yesterday.” Akash Taggarh’s father is a teacher by profession, has said, “My home has been destroyed after my two sons were abducted and disappeared”. VMPS has released a list of 60 Sindhi nationalist abductees who have been abducted in the operation from all over the Sindh that has been going on for last seven days.
Meanwhile, Police, paramilitary rangers and other law enforcement agencies arrested several men and women, including students protesting against enforced disappearances in Sindh from Karachi Press Club on June 27, reports ANI. The protest crowd including family members of the victims gathered at the Karachi Press Club to hold a peaceful protest against illegal arrests and enforced disappearances of their loved ones. According to the protesters since the last two weeks, more than 200 Sindhis and Muhajirs belonging to MQM and different groups of Jiye Sindh have been arrested by Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) and other law enforcement agencies in Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities of Sindh. No arrested person was presented before any court of law. When protesters started chanting slogans against enforced disappearances, a large number of Police, Paramilitary Rangers, and plainclothes personnel of intelligence agencies attacked peaceful protesters. They baton charged and tortured elderly men, women, young girls and students. Many were injured.