Staff Report
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan has announced the formation of legal aid and relief committees for legal assistance to those arrested by the police. These committees have been constituted in all four provinces and at district levels.
“The newly constituted committees would provide all imprisoned in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Larkana, Sukkur and other areas with food, bedding, clothing and other necessities. Meetings with family members would also be arranged,” JI Sindh Ameer and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Sindh President Maulana Asadullah Bhutto told Daily Times. He said these committees would function under the lawyers of JI’s legal wing Islamic Lawyers Circle (ILC). He appealed to the families to forward the details of arrested people to regional leaders of JI.
JI Deputy Secretary Information Sarfaraz Ahmed told Daily Times that in the last six days, more than 1,200 activists of JI, Shabab-e-Milli, National Labour Federation (NLF), Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT) and former and present nazims and councilors of Al-Khidmat Panel were arrested from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan, Layya, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Charsudda, Kohat, Quetta, Gawadar and other cities. More than 450 JI activists were arrested from Karachi alone. “The police is still raiding the residences of JI activists and arrests are being made,” Sarfaraz added.
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