KARACHI: The Naushehro Feroze correspondent of The Daily Regional Times Muhammad Qasim Isran while talking to newsmen on Sunday said that he is badly been brutally and unlawfully tortured by the police when a Special Investigation Team under the leadership of the TPO South Umer Khitab and Inspector Haq Nawaz Chattha arrested him from a house in the Korangi area of Karachi two days ago. The police officials kept at him detained unlawfully at an unknown place and tortured him constantly for two days. During their torture of the journalist, they kept threatening to implicate him in a fake case of possessing weapons after which he repeatedly told them that he was innocent. The police authorities despite seeing his press accreditation card continued to torture him which is absolutely against the norms of a democratically elected government which claims to believe in press freedom. The concerned police authorities also looted cash, a mobile phone, a Sindhi cap and other valuables from the RT reporter. After two days the police authorities finally dumped him at Patel Para in critical condition and warning him of dire consequences if he spoke about the incident. On the occasion, he demanded of the high-ups of the Sindh government including the CM and Home Minister, Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza to take immediate measures in the matter to provide him justice. Meanwhile, the Provincial Minister for Anti-corruption and Enquiries Abdul Haque Bhurt who also hails from Naushehro Feroze while talking to newsmen said that Qasim Isran is a senior journalist who has always his raised voice on different issues of national and provincial importance. The Minister stongly condemned the torture of Qasim Isran. Besides Mr Bhurt, the DCO of Naushehro Feroze, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah said that Qasim Isran is not only a journalist of good repute but also a social worker of the area who has always served the people without any discrimination, MPA Ahmed Ali Shah, MPA Dr. Sattar Rajpar, President of the Food Employees Federation, Mr Younis Rajpar and leaders of different political, social and religious parties have also condemned the SIT South for brutally torturing a senior journalist of the province. It is worthwhile to mention that the journalists' community from throughout the province have also taken strict notice of the torture incident and have condemned it while also demanding of the Sindh government to immediately take action such police officials who bring a bad name to the police dept. The journalists from different cities including Mithiyani, Tharu Shah, Bhariya City, Moro, Naushehro Feroze and other areas have also threatened to start a protest movement if immediate action is not taken in the matter. The leaders of different political and social parties including the STPP, the Shehri Ittehad and others have also announced to stage a series of protest demonstrations in different cities of the province demanding justice for the tortured journalist.—RT