PM urged to order release of Kashmiri Student

Muzaffarabad, March 30:
Press for Peace (PFP), a non-governmental organization working for the protection of human rights and civil liberties, has urged the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan to order immediate release of a Kashmiri student allegedly picked up by some intelligence agency personnel from the federal capital around three weeks ago.
In a letter, Khawaja Zafar Iqbal, Executive Director of PFP, praised Yusuf Raza Gillani for his welcoming announcements after obtaining unanimous vote of confidence from the lower house of Parliament and urged him to bring the lost happiness back to the families whose kin had gone missing at the hands of different intelligence agencies.
In this regard, Iqbal particularly mentioned the case of Sayed Asad Hussain belonging to the southern Poonch district of Pakistan administered Kashmir, whose family members, he said, were in a severe state of trauma ever since he had been taken into custody without any known charges.
“We are hopeful that your government would initiate prompt steps for recovery of all innocent citizens from the illegal custody of agencies on priority basis,” the PFP executive director said to the prime minister.
A student of B.Sc. telecommunication engineering in a private institution, Hussain was picked up by some people, two of them in force’s uniform, on the night of March 11 from his house in Islamabad’s G-7/4 sector for “brief questioning.” However, his family was hitherto unaware about his whereabouts, said Iqbal, who also belonging to Poonch.
He also demanded recovery of missing Kashmiri girls who, he alleged, were kidnapped during the October 2005 earthquake.
“The new government should also take this issue very seriously and initiate further action for their urgent recovery,” he said.