HYDERABAD, Aug 3: Nadra and Election Commission of Pakistan have been asked to send mobile teams to camps of liberated haris for issuance of the NICs and registration of their names in voter lists.

The demand was made by the Peace and Human Rights Trust President Mohammad Aslam Rana advocate.

Speaking during a news conference at the press club here on Friday with Mannu Bheel, he said 30,000 liberated haris living in camps in Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Matiari and Mirpurkhas had neither been issued the NICs nor registered as voters.

According to a survey about 97 per cent of them were Hindu, he informed and appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take a suo moto notice of the matter.

Funds received for their rehabilitation from donor countries were being misused he said and demanded the government to rehabilitate them from human rights funds received from abroad.

He said now the kidnapped family members of Mannu Bheel will be recovered and two million haris languishing in private jails of waderas liberated.

He congratulated the SC, lawyers’ community, media and people on the reinstatement of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry.

Speaking on the occasion, Mannu Bheel thanked the superior judiciary for rejecting bail application of feudal lord, Abdur Rehman Mari, who he said was responsible for the kidnapping of his family members.

He expressed the hope that the SC will restore justice to him by ordering recovery of his kidnapped family members.

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