The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has welcomed and appreciated the decision of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal government to approve a grant of approximately Rs5 billion for the families of missing persons across Pakistan.
This step reflected a positive acknowledgement of the suffering endured by these families over many years, said MQM-P Chairman Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
He stated that his party would continue with its efforts for the recovery of missing persons and to provide relief and justice to their families.
He emphasised that the families of the MQM-P’s innocent missing political workers must also be explicitly included in this relief initiative, along with other families of missing persons across the country.
Dr Siddiqui highlighted that a large number of politically motivated enforced disappearances in Pakistan were of workers of the MQM-P, many of whom had been missing for years.
He lamented that the families of disappeared MQM-P workers had been approaching government offices and courts for years in their struggle to recover their loved ones.
In this regard, he said, a high-level delegation of the MQM-P would soon meet the prime minister to discuss the issue of missing persons and the grievances of their families.
Dr Siddiqui also demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan ensure the recovery of missing political workers, particularly those who had disappeared from urban Sindh, especially Karachi.
