Daily Times

By The Sindh National Tehreek (SNT), a Sindhi nationalist party, on Thursday denounced the Hyderabad Police’s action of detaining his son on August 13, and termed it as ‘a punishment for being loyal to Pakistan’.

In his address to a press conference, SNT Chairman Ashraf Noonari claimed that on August 12 he went to Kandhkot as his relative Dr Taufiq Noonari was kidnapped.

However, as he reached Sukkur, he was informed that Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Hyderabad police had raided on his house, situated near Husri, and arrested his son Kamran Noonari.

He said that when his friends contacted Hyderabad senior superintendent of police (SSP) and CIA police, they said that Sindh Inspector General (IG) of Police had ordered to arrest SNT’s leaders and release them on August 15.

“It was a total shock to our party as we were not involved in any criminal or anti-state activity,” he said, adding that he had joined Sindh National Party (SNP) in 2002, and then in 2007, he became chairman of SNP, however, in 2013 he formed his own party with the name Sindh National Tehreek.

Furthermore, he asserted that he had been contesting elections since 2008, and fielded four candidates from Hyderabad district including him.

Noonari expressed his views on the political situation of Pakistan, and said that he has been peacefully striving to secure the rights of poor masses of Sindh, and his struggle was within the domain of the constitution of Pakistan.

Meanwhile, he appealed to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to take notice of the incident and deliver justice accordingly with the constitution of Pakistan.

Published in Daily Times, August 17^th 2018.