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Express Tribune
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Writer claims cops broke into house, took sons away
Notable Sindhi writer and former Secretary of the Sindhi Language Authority, Taj Joyo, blamed police for breaking into his residence and whisking away two of his sons. In a bare-bodied video recording, Joyo alleged that around 100 cops broke the gate of his house in the Gulistan-e-Sajjad area in the wee hours of Monday, taking away his sons. Hoshu Joyo and Ruplo Joyo were produced before the Anti Terrorism Court, which sent them to jail on judicial remand. They are among 250 men and 40 women who were booked in an FIR at Cantt police station, on Sunday night, for raising anti-Pakistan and anti-army slogans during a rally. The FIR was lodged on the state's complaint under sections 123/A, 341, 147,149, Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and 6/7 Anti Terrorism Act, with the complainant claiming that the accused individuals gathered near the press club on Sunday, and chanted provocative slogans. One of the accused alleged that the participants of the march were booked because they protested against the proposed six canals and corporate farming.
Express Tribune
17-02-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
GDA leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi arrested
KARACHI: Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi was arrested in Noushehro Feroze district on Monday, which the GDA and nationalist parties term political victimization. Jatoi was rounded up when he was returning from the court, where he managed to secure bail in an FIR of police encounter. Hundreds of policemen intercepted him outside the court and told him that he was being arrested in another FIR lodged in Moro taluka of Nourshehro Feroze. He was, however, later shifted to B-Section police station in Shaheed Benazirabad district instead of being taken to the police station in Moro where he was booked. The police claimed that the Anti Terrorism Court had issued non-bailable warrants for Jatoi on February 12 in an FIR of attacking the polling station Ali Baksh Jatoi in Moro on the day of the general elections last year. A man was killed and three were injured in that alleged assault. Nawan Jatoi town in Noushehro Feroze, a stronghold of Jatois, was shut down in reaction to his arrest. "I am being forced to bow down through such fake cases but I won't," said Jatoi while talking to the media after he was arrested.
