Summary Funeral prayer of the deceased will be offered at 5pm in Numaish Chowrangi
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Aftab Hussain, coordinator of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) Dr Farooq Sattar has expired of alleged cardiac arrest while under treatment in Jinnah Hospital, Dunya News reported Tuesday.
The deceased political worker was taken in Rangers custody two days ago. Rangers had acquired 90-day remand of late Hussain on Monday. However, he was shifted to the hospital in the morning today due to bad health.
Hospital administration stated that Hussain expired at 8:20am while a five-member board was formed for autopsy. The board is headed by senior medico-legal officer (MLO) Dr Kaleem.
Funeral prayer of the deceased will be offered at 5pm in Numaish Chowrangi.
It should be mentioned here that Dr Farooq Sattar, who was in Islamabad to finalise joint Terms of References (TORs) with different opposition parties against the government in Panama leaks matter has reached Karachi after learning about the news.
While talking to the media, Dr Sattar demanded a fair probe of Hussain’s death. Bereaved family of Hussain should be assured that he died of natural causes, he added.
Hussain was affiliated with MQM since 1990 and had been serving as Sattar’s coordinator since 2002. He was arrested from his residence in Federal B Area Block-14 by undercover Rangers personnel.
MQM has claimed numerous times to be the victim of a targeted operation that was launched in Karachi in September 2013. Party members have alleged Rangers and other law enforcement agencies in the past of extra-judicial killings.
The party has alleged paramilitary force, numerous times, of apprehending political workers on bogus charges.
In July 2015, troops had seized a large cache of assault rifles and detained suspects including six "known criminals" from Muttahida Quami Movement’s offices in Azizabad area.
In March last year, Rangers had conducted a search and siege operation at MQM headquarters, Nine Zero.
Spokesperson of the paramilitary force had stated that a huge cache of illegal weapons was seized. Some of the seized weapons were stolen from North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) containers, he said.
MQM chief, who has been living in London since 1992 in a self-imposed exile claimed that Rangers had brought illegal ammunition and guns with them at the time of raid.
Allegedly, proclaimed offenders among MQM workers were arrested from the headquarters out of whom 26 were indicted last month in an illegal weapons case.
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MQM has maintained all through the course of action by the paramilitary force that the party is being victimized while workers are being abducted and killed in cold blood.
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