Mansha Pasha, the wife of a prominent Pakistani rights activist and lawyer says her husband has been ‘abducted’ from Karachi after they were coming back from dinner. She said a Vigo stopped their car and 15 armed men forcefully took Nasir away.
Mansha Pasha later filed a police complaint, demanding action against the unidentified people who took her husband away.
Jibran Nasir, 36, is considered one of the country’s most vocal voices against rights violations.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), an independent rights group, issued a statement late on Thursday night, expressing its deep concerns about Nasir’s abduction.
HRCP is deeply concerned by reports that lawyer and activist @MJibranNasir has been abducted by unknown armed persons in Karachi. We demand that he be safely recovered immediately and his abductors held accountable under the law.
— Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (@HRCP87) June 1, 2023
Jibran Nasir, the Karachi-based lawyer’s abduction came during an unrelenting crackdown against former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in which thousands of people were arrested for the violence, including top PTI leaders, with the government set to try some of those arrested in military courts.
Nasir had criticized the crackdown on the PTI party and the decision to try civilians under stringent army laws.
