THATTA, Aug 20: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA Humera Alwani on Monday appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of rising incidents of police brutalities against party activists in Mirpur Sakro taluka, purportedly to force them to change loyalty.

She claimed that the police, at the behest of the party’s political opponents, were suppressing loyal activists and sympathisers of the party and cited an incident, which took place on Aug 14 when she said a heavy contingent of police led by the TPO of Mirpur Sakro, Gul Abbas, and SHO Yaqoob Bhatti with a number of party opponents on motorbikes stormed the Haroon Chandio village of union council Karampur in the wee hours.

They broke into the houses of activists, Dittal and Amir Bux Chandio, and started beating up the inmates, including women and children with rifle butts and batons, seriously injuring Ms Chhuttal Chandio, 70, Khatoo Chandio, Sughran Chandio and Phapul, she said.

They pulled women by the hair and left them in tattered clothes before taking away Dittal and Amir Bux while indiscriminately firing in the air, she said.

Ms Alwani said that she, the relatives of the activists and party leaders, MPA Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman and MPA Sassui Palijo mounted a search for the missing activists but found no trace for days.

On Sunday, she, accompanied by some party activists went to Mirpur Sakro police station after finding a clue to the missing activists but the SHO and staff on duty not only disallowed her to meet the wrongfully confined activist but used libellous language against her, she said.

She then contacted the DIG of Hyderabad, Commander (Retd) Shaukat Ali Shah on cell phone who talked to the SHO and at last he released the activists in semi-unconscious condition.

They were rushed to Shaikh Zaid Bin Sultan Hospital where the doctors revealed on request of anonymity that the activists had been subjected to metal and physical torture and they had wounds on their sensitive parts.

The activists disclosed that during the period of confinement they were kept naked with their hands cuffed behind their backs. Police would often produce them naked before their political rivals in the police station’s veranda to pressurise them to change party, they said.

Ms Alwani said that the Supreme Court of Pakistan was the last ray of hope for victims all over the country and expressed the hope that the Chief Justice of Pakistan would listen to the victims of political victimisation in this remote coastal area.