SUP worker tortured to death in Sukkur

Ahsan Baloch
SUKKUR: The body of the missing activist of Sindh United Party (SUP) Haseeb Junejo, 35, was found near Zero Point on the banks of the Indus River in Kadirpur police station limits on Monday.
Mr. Juneju, who was serving as information secretary of the party’s Sukkur division, reportedly went missing after leaving his home in the New Pind area on Sunday night.
The local police said that the man was severely tortured and killed with a sharp weapon. He further said that the body has been taken to Taluka Hospital for post-mortem.
The central leadership of SUP strongly condemned the “brutal murder” of Haseeb Junejo, saying that his mysterious disappearance and brutal murder raised several questions.
In a statement, SUP Chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah and President Syed Zain Shah said that such incidents question the efficiency of law enforcement agencies. He said the killing of an active and peace-loving SUP worker was an act of “open terrorism”, adding that those who are bleeding innocent civilians after abducting them deserve forgiveness.
He said this was not the first incident of its kind, and called for a judicial inquiry into Mr. Junejo’s torture and murder.
A statement issued in Karachi on Monday claimed that Haseeb Junejo was abducted and subjected to third-degree torture. Some parts of his body were cut off with a sharp weapon.
It has been said in the statement that the people involved in the brutal murder should be held accountable.
He said SUP believes in non-violence and thus its leaders and workers will not abandon the party’s policy of restraint and restraint even in such highly condemnable acts.