Families of missing Shia pilgrims stage demonstration at Karachi Press Club

Mothers, wives and children of missing Shia pilgrims were carrying placards and portraits of the missing members of their families.

Mothers, wives and children of missing Shia pilgrims were carrying placards and portraits of the missing members of their families.

The son of Naseem Haider asked who will bear expenses of their education and livelihood in the absence of his father. Family members said that the illegal and undeclared arrest of heads of their families were tantamount to their economic assassination as well.

They demanded that missing Shia persons must be released forthwith otherwise they would have to resort to stiffened and extreme step of protest. They threatened they could launch fast unto death or burn them alive and the state authorities of Pakistan would be held responsible for their deaths.

They demanded that they must be allowed to meet the illegally arrested Shiites.