KARACHI: A ‘missing’ worker of the Muttahida Qau­mi Movement-Pakistan has been found shot dead, according to party leaders.

Furqan Iqbal was found dead with two bullet wounds on the upper torso of his body on Wednesday. His body was found on a road off Super Highway near a village within the jurisdiction of Memon Goth police station.

“The victim was an officer-bearer of the MQM-P and lived in Gulshan-i-Iqbal,” said party chief Dr Farooq Sattar.

Speaking at a press conference at party’s temporary headquarters in Bahad­urabad on Thursday, he claimed Iqbal was killed in ‘custody’ and said such killings must be stopped.

Dr Sattar said over 150 workers of the party were missing and demanded their release.

He alleged that Iqbal was taken away by ‘personnel’ in plain clothes. After his ‘arrest,’ a petition was filed in the Sindh High Court, which was pending when he was killed after ‘illegal detention’ of 14 days, he added.

The MQM-P leader said his party had been given ‘political space’ but it appeared that the ‘space’ had now been taken back as over 150 workers of the party had not been rele­ased and now their colleague Iqbal’s body had been found.

He demanded arrest of the ‘personnel’ involved in the ‘brutal killing’ of Iqbal.

Meanwhile, investigation officer Mohammed Husain Lashari of Memon Goth police station told Dawn that Iqbal’s maternal uncle had received his body.

He said the victim worked at Port Qasim as a storekeeper.

He left his home in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on a motorcycle on May 11 and talked to his wife Sumera on the mobile phone at around 1pm, asking whether their child had returned from the school. Since then his whereabouts were not known.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2017

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