KARACHI: Human Rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir returned home on Friday almost 22 hours after he was “picked up by unknown men” on Thursday night, his family and police said.
Earlier, his wife Mansha Pasha said that she was coming home with her husband after dinner at around 11 pm when they were intercepted by around 15 men with pistols in plain clothes and took her husband forcibly. She said the men kept yelling at them to get out of the car and offered no explanation.
She said in the complaint that a white colour Toyota car, having registration No BF-4356 intercepted and hit their car from the front left side and forced them to stop near Ideal Bakery on 26th Street, Defence Phase 5, Karachi. The complaint is yet to be filed.
She further said that another vehicle, a silver-colour Corolla car, blocked their vehicle from behind and as such, they were surrounded. According to her, around 15 people in civil clothes along with weapons came out of the vehicles and forced her husband to get out of the car, bundling him up towards their vehicle. She said that they then abducted Nasir and took him away; his whereabouts are unknown till now.
She had asked for a swift release of her husband by taking immediate action against those “who abducted her husband”. Jibran Nasir, who contested in the general elections of 2018 from Karachi as an independent candidate, has been very vocal in his criticism of the recent state crackdown on the PTI and the legal process involving those who allegedly took part in the riots. He was listed by the Foreign Policy Magazine in 2013 amongst three other Pakistanis doing inspirational work against sectarian violence.
