ارد شیر کاؤس جی اسامہ قادری اور فیروزہ بیگم مرحومہ”Maa Ki hai.”
جمعرات کی رات کو جب یہ خبر سننے کو ملی کہ اسامہ قادری کو سادے لباس میں اہلکار لے گئے تو اس موقعہ پر مجھے ارد شیر کاؤس جی اور فیروزہ بیگم مرحومہ بہت یاد آئیں.کچھہ لوگوں کو حیرت ہوگی کہ فیروزہ بیگم تو چلواسامہ قادری کی والدہ تھیں مگرارد شیر کاؤس جی کا کیا تعلق اس واقعے سےآئیے ماضی کے جھروکوں سے ایک عدد واقعہ پیش خدمت ہےیہ اگست1996کی بات ہے .میں نے کالج سے واپسی پر اخبار خریدا. اخبار کی ہیڈلائن تھی اسامہ قادری گرفتار. واضح رہے اس جمہوری دور میں اخبار ہی ایک ذریعہ تھا جس سے کچھہ حقائق پتا چل جاتے تھے یہ تو بعد کی بات ہے کہ ایک آمر نے میڈیا کو آزادی دی . خیر کچھہ عرصے تک یہ خبر ملتی رہی کہ اسامہ قادری کو سرکاری حراست میں بدترین تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا جا رہا ہے. اس طرح کی خبروں سے ان کی والدہ فیروزہ بیگم مرحومہ جو اس وقت سندھ اسمبلی کی رکن بھی تھیں بہت پریشان تھیں.ظاہر سی بات ہے کہ ایک ماں کا دل تو بیٹے کو کانٹا چبھنے پر بھی دکھتا ہے اور اسامہ قادری پر تو بدترین تھرڈ ڈگری ٹارچر ہورہا تھا.بلا آخر ایک دن میں نے اخبار میں ایک خبر پڑھی کہ فیروزہ بیگم نے وزارت کا حلف اٹھالیا.یہ خبر سن کر مجھے حیرانی ہوئی کہ اسامہ قادری کی والدہ کیوں وزیر بن گئیں. میں پریشان رہا. 20 ستمبرغالباً وہ جمعہ کا دن تھا جب میں ڈان اخبارپڑھ رہا تھا کہ اچانک میری نظر ارد شیر کاؤس جی کے ایک کالم پر پڑھی
.کالم میں تفصیلی لکھا تھا کہ ایک ماں وزیر بننے پر کیوں مبجور ہوئی .کالم کیا پڑھنا تھا مجھے حقائق کا پتہ چل گیا کہ آخر فیروزہ بیگم وزیر کیوں بنیں ؟ واضح رہے اس جمہوری دور میں ماروائے عدالت قتل ایک عام سی بات تھی.یہاں تک کہ مرتضیٰ بھٹو بھی ماروائے عدالت قتل ھوۓ. فیروزہ بیگم کو خدشہ تھا کہ کہیں ان کے بیٹے کو ماروائے عدالت قتل نہ کردیاجائے.انہوں نے ہر طرح کوشش کی کہ کسی طرح اسامہ قادری کی جان بچ جائے. ارد شیرکاؤس جی کا واضح طور کہنا تھا کہ فیروزہ بیگم پر دباؤ ڈالا گیا کہ وہ پارٹی ایم کیو ایم چھوڑ کر پیپلز پارٹی میں شامل ہوجائیں تو ان کے بیٹے کی جان بچ سکتی ہے چنانچہ اپنے بیٹے کی جان بچانے کے لئے ایم کیو ایم چھوڑ کر پیپلز پارٹی میں شامل ہوگئیں اور وزیر بن گئیں اس وقت کے رکن سندھ اسمبلی وسیم اختر نے سپریم کورٹ کے چیف جسٹس کو ایک اپیل کی جس میں انہوں نے ارد شیر کاؤ س جی کے کالم کی کاپی لگائی کہ فیروزہ بیگم کو بیٹے کی قتل کی دھمکی دیکر زبردستی وزیر بننے پر مجبور کیا گیا ہےhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/zohkohb0i282t94/Area%20Studies/public/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1996/24Oc96.html#maak
عدالت نے اس معاملے پرایکشن لیا.بلا آخر فیروزہ بیگم نے عدالت کے روبرو کھڑے ہوکر یہ کہدیا کہ ان کو عبدالله شاہ کی حکومت نے ان کے بیٹے کی قتل کی دھمکی دیکر زبردستی وزیر بننے پر مجبور کیا گیا تھا اور اس کے بعد فیروزہ بیگم واپس نائن زیرو آگئیں.کچھہ عرصے کے بعد اسامہ قادری بھی رہا ہوگئے
“Maa Ki hai”
ارد شیر کاؤس جی کا یہ آرٹیکل بہت مشھور ہوا تھا اور اس آرٹیکل نے حکومت اور عدلیہ کو ہلا کر رکھہ دیا تھا.یہ اس آرٹیکل کا لنک ہے
جب اسامہ قادری لاپتہ ہوۓ تو مجھے ارد شیر کاؤس جی اور فیروزہ بیگم بہت یاد آئے کیوں کہ اب اسامہ قادری کے پیچھے ان کے لئے دعا کرنے والی نہ ماں تھیں اور نہ ان کےلئے کالم لکھنے والےوالے صحافی اردشیر کاؤس جی اب زندہ ہیں
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MQM’s Osama Qadri found from SSP East office
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Ardeshir Cowasjee
ONE man with the courage of his convictions, Chief Justice of Pakistan
Sajjad Ali Shah, with the support of many of his equally courageous brother
judges, stood up, straightened and strengthened the pillar he heads.
The doubters followed suit and today we can boast of a judiciary that is
asserting its independence. Numbers are not the be-all and end-all. The
evil that surrounds us can be curbed by a few determined men.
On the September 20, in this space there appeared a column entitled Maa ki
hai, about a distressed mother. Its final paragraph read:
It would be in the fitness of things if the other Shah of Sindh, Chief
Justice of Pakistan Sajjad Ali Shah, will consider summoning Chief Minister
Abdullah Shah to stand before him so that he may warn him that should any
harm or hurt be unjustly caused to either mother or son, Abdullah Shah and
his cohorts will be held responsible and be duly punished.
MQM MPA Wasim Akhtar sent a copy of the column to the Chief Justice of
Pakistan who nominated a caring judge of the Supreme Court, sitting at
Karachi, to take suo moto cognisance of the facts as narrated. This was
done. Hereunder the order of Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid:
HR 13 of 1996
Complaint of Wasim Akhtar, MPA of Sindh
Karachi 8/10/96.
A copy of the article published in the daily Dawn of 20/9/96 entitled Maa
ki hai, inter alia, relating to one Osama Qadri, an accused in custody,
and his mother Mst Feroza Begum who is alleged to have become a minister of
the Sindh Cabinet on 11/9/96 was sent to the Chief Justice of Pakistan by
Wasim Akhtar, MPA Sindh, with the following note:
This is for your information. Please read this article and take necessary
action. This is your duty and responsibility to check on this matter for
Gods sake and for Pakistans sake save this country.
This matter was treated as a Human Rights case and notice was issued to
the learned Advocate-General Sindh and also the petitioner, Wasim Akhtar,
for today. Mr Abdul Ghafoor Mangi, learned Advocate-General Sindh, has
appeared pursuant to the notice. Wasim Akhtar, MPA Sindh, is also present.
He states that he is in custody and 63 criminal cases have been registered
against him. It is further informed by him that he is confined in his house
which has been notified as a sub-jail and he has been produced today before
the Court in custody by the police.
2. Mst Feroza Begum is an MPA belonging to MQM (Altaf Group) and,
according to the article, her son Osama Qadri had been tortured and kept in
police custody and she had made several complaints to the authorities
expressing her fear that her son Osama Qadri, who is in police custody
since 21/8/96, might be killed in a police encounter. According to the
article in the daily Dawn, she has been forced to become a minister
disassociating herself from the party to which she belongs and that she has
done this to save the life of her son Osama Qadri. It is further alleged
that despite becoming a minister in the Sindh Cabinet, she has not been
allocated any portfolio and that she is confined in her house and that no
visitors are allowed to see her.
3. If the allegations that are narrated in the said article are correct,
it would, prima facie, amount to violation of various articles of the
Constitution, inter alia, the following:
a) Article 9 relating to life and liberty of a person.
b) Article 10 which provides safeguards against unlawful arrest and
detention.
c) Article 14 which provides that the dignity of man is inviolable.
d) Article 15 relating to freedom of movement.
e) Article 17 which, inter alia, provides that every citizen shall have the
right to form, or be a member of, a political party.
If Osama Qadri and his mother Mst Feroza Begum have been subjected to
torture and other illegal treatment as narrated in the said article, the
persons responsible would also be liable to be proceeded against under the
relevant provisions of the criminal law.
4. The learned Advocate-General submits, on instructions, that various
allegations referred to in the article are incorrect. He seeks time to file
statements of the responsible officers of the concerned departments
supported by documentary evidence to reflect the stand of the Government.
Mr Wasim Akhtar also states that if he is given some time, he will give
details of what has happened in so far as Osama Qadri and his mother Mst
Feroza Begum are concerned.
Further proceedings will take place on 16/10/96 at 1.00 p.m. an effort
should be made that the statements are filed before the next date. On the
next date, the petitioner Wasim Akhtar should be produced. The learned
Advocate-General has also been asked to ensure the presence of Mst Feroza
Begum and her son Osama Qadri on the next date before this court.
Nasir Aslim Zahid, J 8/10/96.
At this hearing, Sindh Advocate-General Abdul Ghafoor Mangi, on
instructions, stated that various allegations in the column are incorrect,
without mentioning exactly what was incorrect. Whose instructions was he
following?
The post of advocate-general is a constitutional post, deliberately non-
political. He cannot function under instructions acting as a mouth-
piece. He is constitutionally obliged to tender independent legal advice
to the provincial government to the best of his ability. He cannot stand in
court to defend whatever unconstitutional or illegal actions the government
of the day decides to embark upon.
Chief Minister Abdullah Shah, in an effort to prove his bona fides, invited
minister without portfolio Feroza Begum, held in protective custody, to
attend a cabinet meeting on October 15, the first she was invited to attend
since she was sworn in on September 11. This news was splashed on PTV that
night.
On October 16, as ordered, a sad and frightened widow and her son, Osama
Qadri in police custody, were produced in court. The AG filed only the
statement of an SSP, the veracity of which must be doubted as the man has
direct access to the CM, under whose instructions he acts.
Justice Nasir Aslam Zahids order of the 16th records: Mr Adbul Ghafoor
Mangi, Advocate General Sindh. Petitioner Wasim Akhtar MPA, Sindh. Pursuant
to the orders passed on 8/10/96 Osama Qadri son of Mst Feroza Begum has
been produced in custody. Mst Feroza Begum has also appeared and states
that she had received information from the Home Department that she was
required to appear in the Court today and accordingly she has appeared.
Petitioner Wasim Akhtar has filed a detailed statement along with
annexures. Copy of the statement with annexures has been supplied to the
learned Advocate-General. A copy has also been supplied to Mst Feroza
Begum.
Mst Feroza Begum wants to file a detailed statement and for that purpose
requests for some time. Detenu Osama Qadri states that he is in custody at
Central Prison, Karachi. He also wants to make a statement and requests
that on the next date he may be called early so that he may write his
statement in the Court premises. For the present, Osama Qadri made a
request that apart from his family members a number of other persons
unconnected with his family are also allowed by the jail authorities to
meet him, although he does not want to meet them, and this causes extreme
harassment and inconvenience to the detenu.
The learned Advocate-General has also filed a statement dated 15/10/1996
of SSP Central, Karachi, Din Muhammad Baloch, supported by a number of
annexures. Copy of the statement with annexures has been supplied to the
petitioner as well as to Mst Feroza Begum. In case any party wants to file
a reply statement, the same may be submitted to the Assistant Registrar of
this Court by the next date. Further proceedings will now take place at 12
noon on 24/10/96. To enable detenu Osama Qadri to prepare and file his
statement he will be produced in custody in this Court by 9.30 a.m. on
24/10/96. The Assistant Registrar will make arrangements so that the detenu
can write his statement without disturbance from any quarter.
In view of the statement made by the detenu, the Jail Authorities are
directed not to permit any other person except members of the family of the
detenu to meet or see him while he is in custody at Central Prison,
Karachi. This order placing restriction on the Jail Authorities will
continue until further orders of this Court. The learned Advocate-General
states that he will communicate this direction to the concerned authorities
for compliance.
The Judges have done what was expected of them. The people must hope that
Feroza Begum will have the strength to withstand the threats and the
pressures that will be exerted on her and her son. Bullies, who are
invariably cowards, must be fought.
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Extra Judicial killings are common things in Naseer Ullah Babar time.Even Murtaza Bhutto was killed .Feroza Begum was forced to leave MQM and join PPP.Thanks Ardeshir Cowasjee for exposing the real face of these fake democratic Govt Of PPP.They are killer of thousand of innocent citizens of Karachi.We can not forget Zeeshan KAzmi and other butchers police men who bdaly torture political workers and even common people who did not belong to any political party
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Ardeshir Cowasjee
THERE is very little to choose between the PPP and the MQM. Both parties
the leaders and the led have adopted fascistic tendencies, and both have
a firm belief in the success of terrorist tactics. Muscle is ranged against
muscle, leaving losers on both sides. Be that as it may, the state, as
opposed to political parties, must not and cannot indulge itself in acts of
terrorism.
Loathsome is a word which may aptly describe the conduct of the Chief
Minister of Sindh, Syed Abdullah Shah, when he terrorised the widow Feroza
Begum, mother of Osama Qadri.
Osama, a proclaimed offender with a price on his head, had been in hiding
for many a month. He was found and arrested on August 21. The next day, a
point of order on his arrest was raised in the Sindh Assembly by leader of
the opposition Farooq Sattar and Feroza Begum. The Chief Minister conceded
that Osama had been picked up and declared he would produce a list of the
cases in which he was involved. On the 23rd he gave a list to the House of
32 cases against Osama registered in District Central, promising to give a
further list of the remaining cases as soon as he could. He never did.
Osama, while held in police custody, was reportedly tortured, which
naturally the government denied.
On September 3, the presiding officer of Special Terrorist Court No. 1,
Abdul Majid Bhatti, ordered that Osama be held in judicial remand and that
he be sent to jail. The order was disregarded by the police.
Osama was arrested in North Karachi by the police of Khwaja Ajmer Nagri PS.
He was shuffled about between Ajmer Nagri, Taimuria, New town and Gulbahar
police stations, at which PS he was found to be incarcerated on September 7
in the custody of SHO Chaudhry Aslam, a man who is alleged to have killed
71 persons in encounters in the city of Karachi.
Osamas remand expired on September 9, but the police did not produce him
on that date before the judicial magistrate, as they should have done. His
alarmed mother, Feroza Begum, at once sent telegrams to the President,
Prime Minister, COAS, the Chief Justices of Pakistan and Sindh, and the
Chief Minister, Home Secretary and IG Police of Sindh, telling them all of
her apprehension that her son would be killed by the police whilst in
custody, and seeking their intervention and help.
The last contact her party members and family had with Feroza was when she
was with her legal adviser on September 9 at 1600 hours. Thereafter she was
not to be found, until September 11 when she suddenly appeared in the
Governors House, before a battery of Press and television photographers to
be sworn in by the Governor as a minister of Sindh. The following day, the
proud and clever government proclaimed that it had managed to create chaos
in the MQM ranks and had won over to its side an MQM member.
What was not broadcast to the public was the fact that the government had
threatened Feroza Begum that were she not to accept the post of a minister
and agree to be sworn in she would never again see her son alive. Since
then, the widowed mother has been held incommunicado by this gallant
government. Her house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, which in the past three years has
been raided thirty-seven times by our law enforcement agencies, was and
remains surrounded by the police under the pretext of giving her
protection. Visitors wishing to see her are told to contact the Home
Secretary for permission. No one knows whether she is in her house or being
kept elsewhere.
The government has a clear majority in the Sindh Assembly. By his
terrorisation of a widow, just what has Abdullah Shah achieved? What he has
done is to confirm the bully-boy tactics practised by his party; he has
proved to the people what we have long suspected that his ability to rule
and reason is, to say the least, limited.
Listed hereunder in this newspaper of record are the persons who cold be
charged with complicity in an act of terrorism, and with being accessories
to a crime. As far as we are informed, not one of these men or women raised
a voice against the action of the Chief Minister (some may have done so,
but clandestinely). The party unity has been commendable:
The Oxford-educated President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Tumandar
of the Legharis, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan.
The Radcliffe and Oxford-educated Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
The Interior Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, an IMA-PMA
trained retired General of the Pakistan Army, Naseerullah Babar.
The Oxford-educated honourable Governor of the Province of Sindh, Syed
Kamaluddin Azfar. Ever since he has been in occupation of the Karachi
gubernatorial mansion, he has raised the style and dignity of his office.
He no longer sees or meets people he grants audiences. On September 11,
he spent the day to-ing and fro-ing about Karachi commemorating the death
anniversary of Jinnah, and then hurriedly had the darbar hall of his
mansion opened and spruced up, and under a painting of Jinnah being sworn
in by the bewigged Chief Justice Abdur Rashid, he administered the oath of
office to a sobbing and devastated woman, frightened out of her wits. What
a desecration of the office he holds, of the house in which Jinnah died in
which he lives and governs.
Ministers of the Government of Sindh (30): Syed Abdullah Shah (Chief
Minister); Syed Pervaiz Ali Shah (Irrigation and Power); Haji Zafar Ali
Leghari (Communications and Works); Nisar Ahmed Khuhro (Planning and
Development); Abdul Hakeem Baloch (Housing and Town Planning); Abdul Khaliq
Jumma (Bureau of Supply and Prices); Agha Siraj Durrani (Education); Agha
Tariq (Mineral Development and Kachchi Abadis); Sikander Mendhro
(Cooperation); Ghulam Rasool Jatoi (Revenue); Mir Nadir Magsi (Excise and
Taxation); Hari Ram (Minority Affairs); Jam Mumtaz Ali (Forests); Abdul
Salam Thahim (Wildlife); Jan Muhammad Brohi (Transport); Khwaja Muhammad
Awan (Labour); Kunwar Hamir Singh Sodha (Science and Technology); Mr Lal
Bux Bhutto (Public Health Engineering); Abdul Wahid Soomro (Primary
Health); Shamim Ahmed (Health); Mir Munawar Ali Talpur (Local Government
and Rural Development); Mir Ghalib Hussain Dombki (Culture and Youth
Affairs); Pir Amjad Hussain Shah Jilani (Fisheries and Livestock); Syed Ali
Mardan Shah (Fisheries); Arbab Ataullah (Livestock); Pir Mazharul Haq (Law
and Parliamentary Affairs); Syed Mohsin Ali Shah (Food); Syed Murad Ali
Shah (Agriculture); Syed Umaid Ali Shah (jails and Illegal Immigrants
Affairs); Feroza Begum (no portfolio).
Ghous Bux Mehr (Speaker of the Sindh Assembly); Sardar Mohammed Nabi Khan
Gabol (Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly).
Advisers to the Chief Minister of Sindh (15): Abdul Rahim Baloch (Narcotics
Control); Aziza Salim Jilani, wife of the Defence Secretary (Population
Welfare); Shamim N.D. Khan, wife of the Federal Law Minister (Womens
Development and Social Welfare); Iqbal Yusuf (Co-ordinator, Vigilance
Committee); Jam Saqi (Bonded Labour Affairs); Maulana Ehtiramul Haq Thanvi
(Auqaf); Mian Muhammad Akhtar Pagganwala (Political Affairs); Mohammad
Yousuf (Information); Munawar Hussain Suhrawardi (Sports); Mushtaq Mirza
(Chief Ministers Inspection Team); Nawab Mohammad Jehangir Khan (Culture,
Heritage and Archaeology); Syed Asad Ali Shah (Finance); Tufail Tony
Casino Shaikh (Tourism); Sardar Wahid Bux Bhutto (no assignment); Tariq
Niazi of Mianwali (no assignment).
To all, or some of the above, one day justice may be done in the form of
retribution. It may befall them for the maa ki hai, the anguish, pain and
deep distress they have caused to a mother, a widow at that. Payment in
some form will be exacted from them.
It would be in the fitness of things if the other Shah of Sindh, Chief
Justice of Pakistan Sajjad Ali Shah, will consider summoning Abdullah Shah
to stand before him so that he may warn him that should any harm or hurt be
unjustly caused to either mother or son, Abdullah Shah and his cohorts will
be held responsible.
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