World Sindhi Congress (WSC) a London based human rights advocacy group strongly condemned the brutal murder of Sindhi Leader Muzaffar Bhutto belonging to Jeay Sindh Muthahida Mahaz (JSMM) in the hands of Pakistani security agencies. His tortured body was found stuffed in a gunny bag near Bukhari village in the limits of Hatri police station near Hyderabad, Sindh.
He was traveling in his car with his wife and younger brother on 25 February 2011, when they reached Saeeabad Tool Plaza, Hyderabad his car was stopped by plainclothes people belonging to intelligence agencies of Pakistan and he was taken away.
In 2011, Amnesty International , HRCP and Asian Human Rights Commission issued urgent appeals for his release. Congressman Brad Sherman and famous writer Noam Chomsky had written letters to Pakistan Government asking for his release and showing their concern for his life. Major national and international media and human rights groups all over the world have been asking for his whereabouts. His wife Saima Bhutto has been actively seeking the release of her husband and other disappeared activists. Pakistani military and other security agencies have been actively engage in hundreds of forced disappearance and targeted killing of political activists and ordinary people in Sindh and Balochistan.
According to Mrs. Bhutto, her husband suffered from ulcer and asthma in addition to discomfort as a result of back-bone surgery due to injuries sustained whilst allegedly being tortured during his previous abduction on 6 October 2005 by the agencies. He was kept in illegal custody till 6 November 2006 and then he was handed over to Jamshoro police which implicated him in false cases. He was tried by an Anti-terrorist court but was released on 5 January 2009. Mr. Bhutto told his relatives that he was kept in illegal custody by ISI, notorious security agency often linked with Al-Qaeeda and Taliban. He was also tried under different cases but was acquitted.
“Pakistani agencies are creating another Balochistan by kidnapping, torturing and killing human rights activist in Sindh,” said Dr Hidayat Bhutto, the Chairman of WSC from London. “All the Army cantonments in Pakistan generally and in Sindh particularly have become Gestapo torture cells where human and political workers are kept incommunicado and tortured for months before their fate is decided either by killing them and throwing their dead bodies or releasing them to police to implicate them in fabricated cases,” he further lamented.
“We demand human rights organizations and world community to take notice and stop the extra judicial killings. We feared all the remaining political workers who are the in custody off Pakistan security agencies is in danger and only with sustained efforts from world community can save their lives,” pleaded Dr. Bhutto.