Usman Ali

On 27th June my wife and I were scheduled to travel to Dubai via Emirates EK601 to visit my Family for Eid and we were scheduled to return to Karachi on 5th July. We checked in our luggage, got boarding passes, cleared immigration and got the exit stamps but while approaching the Departure Lounge we were called by an FIA official who appeared to be receiving instructions from someone on his phone. He took our passports and read our names to the person on the phone and confirmed "Yahi log hain aap kay" after which we were made to miss our flight, our baggage returned and offloaded stamps affixed on our passports. No formal explanation was given except for "Samjha karain sir, hamain instructions hain aap ko janay nahi dena". We also didn't receive any from the Interior Ministry once we sent legal notices. Today the Hon' SHC has issued notices to the concerned ministry/depts seeking explanation for his harassment and unlawful restriction on travel. On 1st June I was abducted by around 15 armed men who acted with the confidence and bravado of having official authority and during their captivity I was asked to give up on my human rights work and cases. I see the incident of 27th June and restriction on my family's travel as continuation of the unlawful and unconstitutional tactics adopted on 1st June to harass and intimidate me and my family. Neither do I intend to give up on my human rights work and political activism nor do I have any intention to move out of Pakistan. Will stay here and will keep resisting unlawful and unconstitutional policies and actions of any and all institutions.