I have undergone miseries. I am
in the eye of storm. There are so many things, controversies and disclosures,
which yet I have to make public.
(I)
2011 -- Office of the SEWAFCO, in
Hyderabad, Sindh. Conversation between Mohammad Waseem of Interactive Resource
Centre (IRC), Lahore:
MW: Military needs your support!
Me: Strange!
MW. Army wants your support in
seeking information regarding freedom movement in Sindh and Balochistan.
Me: I don’t know anything about
it. Even if I would have been knowing, I would never had informed you.
M.W: If you cooperate and help
us, you will become millionaire.
Me. Sorry!
MW: In that case, it will take us
one year to destroy you forever.
Me. Fine!
M. W. And Sindh also would be
divided.
Me. Military cannot do what is
impossible………!
(II)
2012 -- Qaiser (Program Officer, OXFAM – GB, Pakistan)
Q: Our project with The Institute
for Social Movement (ISM) is ok; however there are some constrains.
Me. What kind of constrains?
Q: They (army) want ISM should
not be given the project. So why don’t you join the Military Intelligence (MI).
We would offer you the post of Captain. But, you have to work with the
prostitutes, the young prostitutes!
Me. You are guest in Hyderabad.
Otherwise, I would have replied you very well.
(III)
2014: Mumtaz Shar (Finance
Manager, OXFAM GB, Pakistan):
MS: What is your opinion about
Jeay Sindh Mutahida Mahaz (JSMM) and Sindh Liberation Army (SLA)?
Me: JSMM is a Sindh freedom
political party, and so for I have been hearing and reading about SLA, it does
random militancy. I like this organization in comparison with the other
militant freedom movements in Asia because there is no human causality reported
by the newspapers for this outfit as yet. I consider this a peaceful freedom
movement.
(IV)
2012: Neva Khan (Country
Director, OXFAM GB, Pakistan), Islamabad
NK: How the militancy for the
freedom of Sindh is going on?
Me: You guys know the best.
Pakistani military establishment should thank God. Had I been part of militancy
in Sindh, there would have been a real hell for them.
Sikandar Brohi: He is outspoken,
Madam. You need not to think otherwise.
(V)
Naureen Irfan (Deputy Director,
OXFAM GB, Pakistan)
NI: Sorry Zulfiqar, we sometimes
have to hear them (Army) concerning the projects.
Me. It’s all right.
(VI)
2011: Flight from Karachi to Islamabad.
Someone introduced himself as Major General Retires Naqvi.
GN: An NGO of Pakistan Army is
planning to seek major funding for flood relief. What do you think, would it
serve the people.
Me. Does Army have no other business
except to insert into to domain of civil society? I think it has not looted the
citizens enough, so now it requires usurping Donor Agencies in the name of
serving people.
(V)
2011: Meeting with Al-Qaida
A person associated with Al-Qaida
met me in 2011. I shared this with a senior at Christian Studies Centre,
Rawalpindi. They kept quite. The night Osama Bin Laden was killed, and the news
was not yet made public, he gave me a call and told “They killed the Prophet!”
He wept. I was silent. I understood what does he meant.
The person was killed in a bomb
blast in Quetta during January 2013, during the period I was forcedly taken
back to Pakistan by ISI after giving me poison in Kathmandu, Nepal. I felt this
very strange that CSC told me that the person is fine. You have misunderstood.
(VI)
2014: India Pak Section of Delhi
Police Bhawan
Inspector Ved Parkash wrote down
my statement in Hindi, and asked me to sign it. I wore before signing it); “Signed after the statement was read out to
me because I cannot read Hindi.” He said why you have written this in English?
I replied sarcastically, “Should I write this line in Hindi?” For at least six
months officials in disguise tried me to read out the Hindi text. This did not
only create troubles to me, but also made me to laugh over the waste of six
months regarding the issue.
Another Inspector forced me to
introduce my-self as Pakistani. I refused, and said I am a Sindhi refugee. He
abused bitterly.
(VII)
2015: An Interview in Delhi
Interviewer: Why you have faced
this persecution?
Me: Because I was engaged in the
rights based activism on blab bla bla issue and also have written on these
issues as well.
Interviewer: Do you know about
freedom movement, as well as the militancy in Sindh?
Me: Freedom movement there is on
the peak, and the militancy as I have read in the newspapers was also there to
some extent but it has caused no human casualty (according to the newspapers).
I don’t know about it these days because I read newspapers very randomly these
days.
Interviewer: So you were doing
all this until 2011.
Me. No. Until early 2012.
Interviewer: Oh You….!
Me. You are mixing the things. I
have been doing rights based activism until early 2012.
(VIII)
2014 – 2015: Human Trafficking
and Prostitution in Delhi
I have been given temporarily a
room in the area where ISI is stationed (according to some locals, I am not
sure of this). I am continuously being given chemical there. The area also
encourages human trafficking and prostitution. I am forced to get involved in
this business as well, which I don’t want to.
I will write details about the
means and methods of this in future. What I am being said that my and my wife’s
family members and friends are forcedly taken to India now, and they would also
be forced to the business of prostitution…..
This is a heinous crime of harassment.
(I have written this time about the political and other aspects to
which my persecution is connected because I have already written a lot about
the other reasons).
Zulfiqar Shah, New Delhi, India February 5, 2015