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Relatives of
13 Pakistanis released by US thanks Ansar Burney
Urdu Times (news) The parents and relatives of 13 innocent
Pakistanis, released by United States on Thursday from
its worst kind of human rights violation Camp X-Ray
in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay and arrived in Pakistan, have
thanked renowned human and civil rights activist Ansar
Burney, Advocate because of him, they were be able to
see their loved ones.
The parents and relatives of thirteen released prisoners,
very much appreciated and lauded the great efforts made
by Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International in this
regard.
Those 13 arrives in Pakistan one of them was seriously
ill and moved to hospital. The other freed Pakistanis
are: Khan Muhammad Kashif, Ahmed Ali, Urayman Sajin,
Amin Aminullah, Abdul Mowia, Ansar Mohammad (seriously
ill), Jamaludin Muhammad, Razik Abdul, Hudin Sala, Khan
Tariq, Safollah Ghasar Zaban, Iqbal Faik, and one Unknown.
This is the second batch of the released prisoners.
Earlier, four Pakistani nationals were released from
Guantanamo Bay.
Meanwhile human and civil rights organization hopes
that United States will also release 41 more innocent
Pakistanis soon.
According to Mrs. Shaheen Burney, Vice Chairperson
of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, more
than 58 Pakistanis were taken to Guantanamo Bay cage
from Pakistan as suspected members of the Taliban militia
and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. One Pakistani
prisoner was released in November last year, while three
more were freed early this year.
Shaheen thanked President General Parvez Musharraf
for his kind cooperation in getting the release of innocent
Pakistanis from Guantanamo Bay detention center. More
than 41 still remain in the detention cages for what
the US describes as illegal combatants. They were rounded
up in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the US-led military
campaign which saw the collapse of the Taliban regime
in November 2001, Shaheed Burney added.
Shaheen Burney said that the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International has did a lot for the release of innocent
human beings from the cages of American detention center
in Guantanamo Bay. We are trying to get release all
innocents including Pakistanis, Kuwaiti, Saudi and other
nationals from the cages of American detention center
at Guantanamo Bay, as early as possible.
PAK / UN / HUMAN
RIGHTS
Voice of America, 26 September 1995
A WELL KNOWN PAKISTANI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANSAR BURNEY
IN NEW YORK ATTENDED A THREE-DAY NON-GOVERNMERNTAL ORGANIZATIONS'
ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS. HE TOLD STAFFER RAZI
RIZVI THAT PARTICIPANTS EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE HUMAN
RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE URBAN AREAS OF SINDH IN PAKISTAN.
(URDU 9/23)
1,200 Pakistani
prisoners likely to be released from Muscat
KARACHI: The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
(ABWTI) is trying to secure the release and repatriation
of another 1,200 Pakistani prisoners from Muscat jails
before Eidul Fitr.
The Pakistani prisoners were smuggled to Muscat. Recently
the ABWTI succeeded in getting 1,334 Pakistani prisoners
released from Muscat jails and returned to Pakistan.
Thousands of Pakistanis are still stranded or in prisons
around the globe or trapped in slave labour and the
ABWTI is trying to bring them home.
Groups of fake agents took Pakistanis to foreign countries
after taking huge amounts of money and left them there
helpless or killed them. —PPI
Husband
burnt her wife by hot iron later putted acid on her
serious burn injuries in Pakistan:
By razia on Sunday, January 23, 2000 - 07:31
pm:
KARACHI: The Vice Chairperson of the human and civil
rights organisation "Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International" Mrs. Shaheen Burney has demanded
an immediate arrest of the husband who burnt his wife's
all body by hot iron later putted acid on her serious
burn injuries in Karachi.
According to details one Zia Ahmed, resident of Sadar,
Karachi, after quarrel with his wife Mst. Farah, burnt
her all body with hot iron later putted acid on her
burn wounds and locked her in a room, where she was
locked for five days in a very painful condition without
food or water.
After having come to know about the incident, Advocates
of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International rushed
the incident place and got her release from the custody
of her husband.
Her condition is very deteriorating, Doctors of the
Trust are trying to save the life of innocent Farah.
The incident occurred on Monday January 17, when Farah,
asked her husband for her legal rights.
However, after five days later when Mr. Ansar Burney,
Advocate came to know about the incident from some sources
he sent Volunteer Advocates at the incident place who
took badly injured Farah to Civil Hospital.
Shaheen Burney said that women are always neglected
in our society where they are living a life which is
worse than the animals in the male dominating society.
Mrs. Shaheen Burney renewed Ansar Burney Trust's pledge
to continue battle against honour killings (karo-kari)
in the name of so-called custom. She said that the need
of today is to equip women with the tool of education
so they could effectively fight this evil, and that
the "Ansar Burney Welfare Trust" had placed
honour killings on its top priority.
She said that from October 1998 to September 1999,
595 innocent people were murdered in Sindh province
alone in the name of karo-kari (honour killings), out
of which 346 were females and 249 males. 50 per cent
of such women were killed by their husbands and 20 per
cent by their fathers and brothers, she added.
Shaheen Burney called for an immediate legislation
to curb this totally unIslamic custom of killings for
honour. A killer is a killer and punishable under law,
She said.
Shaheen Burney said that every year hundreds of innocent
women and girls are murdered in the same circumstances
but nobody hears their hues and cries, She demanded
an immediate stop of such killings of innocents and
requested the well to do people to come forward and
help "Ansar Burney Trust" to helping the helpless.
11 Pakistanis
released from Tanzanian slave labour to arrive today
Urdu Times (news) The hectic efforts of renowned human
and civil rights activist Ansar Burney, Advocate has once
again become fruitful as 11 Pakistanis released from the
Tanzanian Private Jail's slave labour in Dar- es Salaam,
will arrive home on Tuesday (Today).
According to schedule these Pakistanis will arrive
Karachi via Dubai by EK 600 at 11:00 AM on Tuesday,
Sept 16.
The Chairman Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
Ansar Burney, Advocate on Tuesday, will receive them
at the Airport.
"After their safe arrival the Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International will ask the Pakistani Authorities
to register a criminal case of human smuggling and bring
the human smuggler agent to justice". Syed Fahad
Burney, Vice Chairman of the Trust on Monday, announced
this.
"These11 young seamen, who were in slave labour
at the Seaport of Dares Salaam, since last 10 months,
were going to die if Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
would not be able to got them released and provide them
all help." Said Syed Fahad Burney.
"These 11 young Pakistanis were released from
the Tanzanian Private Jail's slave labour in Dar es
Salaam, only because of the hectic efforts of Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International. In this regard all
the expenses were also born by the Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International to get them release and bring them
back home." Fahad Burney added.
These Pakistani youngsters were living in miserable
circumstances, since last 10 months. Since last one
month agent also stopped their food. To satisfy their
hunger they were drinking seawater after boiling it
and taking the salt out from the seawater.
These Pakistanis were cheated by Agents in Pakistan
and were stuck for the last 10 months at Dar es Salaam
Sea Port in Tanzania, where they are in slave labour
and kept hungry and were becoming mental patients in
a private jail on a ship of Tanzania.
The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International has asked
the families for further information to contact Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International immediately at 6
Hassan Manzil, Arambagh Road, Karachi, Phone: (021)
2626274, 2623382, 2623383, Mobile: 0300 8243459 in this
regard. According to details 10 months ago a Pakistani
human smuggler took a large amount of money from 11
young Pakistanis on a promise to provide them better
jobs and a brighter future. Later he took them to Tanzania
and instead of giving job he sold them to a Tanzanian
Agent in Dar es Salaam like animals.
Therefore the Tanzanian Agent kept these youngsters
in a private jail on a Ship in Tanzanian Sea Port and
used them as slave labour since last 10 months.
Those who were released from Tanzania and coming back
home on Tuesday are; Khursheed Ali, Ahmad Khan, Obaidullah
Khan, Bacha Zada, Adil Abbas, Raees Ahmad Khan, Asif
Reza Mir, Mohammad Naeem, Aziz ur Rehman, Mohammad Yousuf
Khan, Amir, Shehroz Khan and Ilyas.
Ansar Burney
Trust sent 27 released Pakistanis back to home from
Yemen
SANA'A (Yemen) (NNI): Twenty-Seven more Pakistani crewmen
who were stuck at Aden Sea, since last one year, have
been got released by the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International from the clutches of human smuggler Agents
and sent them back to Pakistan on Friday.
The Authorities in Yemen found their traveling documents
as genuine. The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
has already sent 70 such Pakistani youngsters back to
Pakistan in the last few months, which were smuggled
from Pakistan, by the human smuggler agents where they
sold them to another Agents for slave labour.
These 27 Pakistani crewmen were stuck in Aden Sea since
last 10 months to one year and rescued only due to the
hectic efforts of Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International's
Chairman Ansar Burney, Advocate.
Syed Fahad Burney, Vice Chairman of the Ansar Burney
Welfare Trust International has said these stranded
Pakistanis in slave labour camp were spending their
lives in miserable conditions. To satisfy their hunger
they were drinking seawater after boiling it and taking
the salt out from the seawater. They were starving,
drinking rusty water and has no medical facilities on
the Ship at sea port.
According to details after hue and cry from these innocent
crewmen, the Yemeni Agents even stopped the supply of
food and they do not have anything to eat for the last
three months. These Pakistanis were going to die if
the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International to them
would not provide help.
Misery started last year when Agent took these Pakistanis
to Yemen and sold them to another Yemeni Agent like
animals where they were asked for slave labour on the
ship, the owner of the ship has not paid a single penny
to these Pakistani youngsters since their arrival, as
a result of which they were facing pathetic and crucial
time on the port." Fahad Burney added.
Syed Fahad Burney, said that these Pakistani seamen
went to Yemen through legal procedure and their local
Yemeni agents, received all the seamen at the airport
and got them cleared with the immigration.
Syed Fahad Burney said right now we do not have sufficient
funds to bring all such innocents back to Pakistan for
their rehabilitation, as their parents are also very
poor. He asked well to do people to come forward and
strengthen the hands of Mr Ansar Burney to help the
crying humanity in our society.
'Bodies of six
slain Pakistanis rotting in Macedonia'
karachipage; 4 June 2002
KARACHI: The Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
has deplored that the bodies of six young Pakistanis
killed by the Macedonian authorities in Skopje on March
2 have been decaying there since then. The chairman
of the trust, Ansar Burney, requested President General
Pervez Musharraf to pay attention to the matter and
ask the ministries of foreign affairs and interior to
contact Macedonian government for bringing back home
the bodies of slain young men.
Family members of the deceased--Ejaz Hussain, Asif
Khan, Riaz Deen, Bilal Shah, Umar Farooq and Khalid-hailing
from different districts of Punjab province are desperate
to get their bodies for burial according to Muslim tradition.
"These Pakistanis arrested from Macedonian boarder
while they were reciting the Holy Quran were declared
terrorists of Taliban and Alqaeda following the recovery
of the copies of Holy Quran from their pockets,"
Burney said.
The arrested men were mercilessly killed by the Macedonian
forces in front of the American embassy on March 2.
Later, the deceased were declared innocent by the FBI
as they were travelling to Europe for a better future.
Burney said he had faxed letters to President Musharraf
and Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski for
the repatriation of bodies for burial in their hometowns.
Requesting them to ask their respective ministries to
arrange for an early return of the bodies Burney said:
"It is very sad that we do not have any respect
for our own nationals or even the innocents."
Burney
Expresses Concern over Jailed Children in Pakistan
Human Rights News Agency International; 31
January 1997
KARACHI -- Mr. Ansar Burney, Attorney, renowned human
rights activist and chairman "Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International" has made fervent appeal to
the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and High Courts
of the four provinces including Azad government of Jammu
and Kashmir, to Take serious notice of the inhuman and
worst treatment metedout to innocent children in Pakistani
prisons by the prisons' authorities and pass necessary
orders to protect them from such inhuman tortures.
Ansar Burney, Attorney in his appeal has drawn the
kind attention of the judiciary chiefs to the gross
violation of human rights in the prisons where even
handcuffed children having heavy chains in their legs
are also not spared.
Mr. Burney said in the whole country there are reports
of gross violation of human rights, where minors are
kidnapped, crippled and forced to go for begging their
abductors and where the police and administration are
behind all of these worst kinds of child abuse. Forced
labour are taken by them in kin's and trained for committing
pick-pocketing and when arrested by police, they are
subjected to other great inhuman treatment.
He said these reports have defaming Pakistan as handcuffed
children with heavy iron chains in their legs are produced
in courts even and their cases are not decided for years,
he deplored.
Benazir
condemns attack on Ansar Burney
Saturday June 05, 2004
ISLAMABAD, June 6 (Online): Former Prime Minister
and Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party, Benazir Bhutto
has condemned the attack on the life of human rights
activist Ansar Burney and his wife early this week in
Karachi .
Unknown terrorists opened fire on the vehicle of human
rights activist and Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International, Mr Ansar Burney, Advocate on Monday
evening. His wife, Shaheen Burney was also in the vehicle
along with his two guards when the terrorists attacked
the vehicle in Pak colony area in Karachi. The attackers
fled when the guards responded .
In a statement today the former Prime Minister expressed
deep concern over the worsening law and order situation
in the country in general and in Karachi in particular.
She said that there is a complete breakdown of law and
order in the country while the military regime is busy
in political manoeuvring and marginalizing democratic
forces. People are frightened to go out of their homes
to earn their living because terrorists are free to
roam around the streets of Karachi.
She said the people were completely alienated with
the regime and that was a major reason why it had failed
in bringing law and order to the country .
kistanis
released from Tanzanian slave labour arrive home
Tuesday September 16, 2003
KARACHI, September 17 (Online): The 11 Pakistanis
released from the Tanzanian Private Jail's slave labour,
arrived back home on Tuesday morning.
Touching scenes were witnessed at the time of their
arrival at Jinnah International Air Port. Some of them
bow down and kissed the Pak land to thanked Almighty
Allah. Human and civil rights activist and Chairman,
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International Ansar Burney,
Advocate and relatives of released Pakistanis were also
present at the Jinnah terminal to receive them.
The relatives and the released persons when met each
other's tears of happiness came in their eyes.
The 11 Pakistani youngsters released from the clutches
of Tanzanian human smuggler's private jail, on a ship
in Dar es Salaam Sea, were living in miserable circumstances,
since last 10 months.
 Since
last one month agent also stopped their food and they
were living only by drinking seawater. To satisfy their
hunger they were drinking seawater after boiling it
and taking the salt out from the seawater.
These young Pakistanis were cheated by human smuggler
Agents in Pakistan and were stuck for the last 10 months
at Dar es Salaam Sea Port in Tanzania, where they were
in slave labour and kept hungry and were becoming mental
patients in a private jail on a ship of Tanzania.
Those who were released from Tanzania and coming back
home are; Khursheed Ali, Ahmad Khan, Obaidullah Khan,
Bacha Zada, Adil Abbas, Raees Ahmad Khan, Asif Reza
Mir, Mohammad Naeem, Aziz ur Rehman, Mohammad Yousuf
Khan, Amir, Shehroz Khan and Ilyas.
According to details 10 months ago a Pakistani human
smuggler took a large amount of money from 11 young
Pakistanis on a promise to provide them better jobs
and a brighter future. Later he took them to Tanzania
and instead of giving job he sold them to a Tanzanian
Agent in Dar es Salaam like animals. Therefore the Tanzanian
Agent kept these youngsters in a private jail on a Ship
in Tanzanian Sea Port and used them as slave labour
since last 10 months.
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