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Burney releases
Doves and Lights ‘Candle of Peace’
Saturday March 13, 2004
KARACHI: The world-renowned human and civil
rights activist and Chairman of 'Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International' Ansar Burney, Advocate has torched
'candles of peace' and released , symbol of peace, 100
doves from cages, on Saturday, to show solidarity with
Indians and for the establishment of Peace and Human
Rights in the region. It was also be the first day of
Cricket match in Karachi between Pakistan and India.
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International organized this
event as a mission to show solidarity with its Indian
neighbors and to save the lives of innocent children,
women and young people from devastation of war, hatred,
terrorism and killings.
"These candles of peace had been lightened and
symbol of peace birds ‘Doves’ were released
from the cages, to convey a message to the World community
specially to Indian’s brethren that Pakistanis
have very high regards for Peace, justice and human
rights there is no place for terrorism and war in their
kind hearts”. 'Human Rights Angel' Ansar Burney
said while talking to newsmen on the occasion.
"If we NGO's failed to stop war, hatred and terrorism
it could be extended to world war, as a result humanity
will see bloodshed, destruction and we don't want the
death of humanity". 'Human Rights Angel' Ansar
Burney added.
"We look forward to see peace, love and humanity
instead of war, bloodshed and destruction on this earth
of God". He further added.
World has not yet forget the massive destruction of
Hiroshima, Russia and Afghanistan and we cannot afford
another war to be imposed on humanity.
Burney serves
$ 12 million Legal Notice to Macedonian govt
Friday May 07, 2004
LONDON, May 08 (Online): The Pakistan's human
and civil rights organisation, Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International, has served legal notice to the
Macedonian Government through it’s Ambassador
in London (UK) on Friday at Macedonian Embassy, claiming
US Dollars 12 million on killing six innocent Pakistanis
and one Indian by Macedonian police in the fake name
of terrorism, in March 2002.
The renowned human rights Lawyer, Ansar Burney, widely
known as ’human rights Angel’ in Pakistan
on Friday along with Vice Chairman of the Ansar Burney
Welfare Trust International, Syed Fahad Burney, and
Liaqat Hussain Kiyani, visited the Macedonian Embassy
in London, and met Deputy Ambassador of Macedonia Ms
Hyreme Gurra where he handed her over the legal notice
of 12 million US dollars for Macedonian Government on
killing seven innocents in a fake and fabricated encounter
in the so-called name ‘war against terrorism‘.
According the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
these 7 innocents were kidnapped from Macedonian Boarder
and transported to the Rastanski Lozja area, about 5km
north of Skopje, where they were surrounded and gunned
down by the Macedonian police in a fake encounter. Seven
including six Pakistanis and one Indian were killed
on 3rd of March 2002 by the Macedonian police in the
name of terrorism.
Burney Welfare
Trust in search of Khalid Hayat's family
Friday June 11, 2004
KARACHI, June 12 (Online): The Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International is in search of a family of one
Khalid Hayat whose skeleton was found from the Oman's
mountains in UAE.
Renowned human rights activist and Chairman of the Trust
Ansar Burney, Advocate who visited UAE and arrives back
home on Friday in search of the family of Khalid said
that the skeleton of Khalid Hayat son of Khan Mohammad
was found from the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah (UAE)
adjacent to Oman mountains. He was recognized only because
of traveling documents found nearby to his body.
He said that all the arrangements have been completed
to bring the body of Khalid back to home and it will
arrive Pakistan within the next two days, but the Trust
is not aware about his relatives and now Ansar Burney
Trust started their search to hand them the body for
burial.
He said any one having knowledge of Khalid's family
in Pakistan could contact to Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International at 6 Hassan Manzil, Arambagh Road, Karachi.
Phone (021) 2626274, 2628719, 2623382 Mobile 0300-8243459.
Burney said that Khalid was the economic migrant entered
via Oman's mountains and died in miserable condition
on the high mountains because of hunger and thirst later
his body's skeleton was found by the UAE police from
the mountain borders.
"According to traveling documents the address
mentioned in the passport is Dera Baghoka, Miana Gondal,
Phalia, Mandi-Bahauddin, Punjab". Ansar Burney
said.
"Dozens of dead bodies and skeletons are still
lying on the mountains of Oman in Muscat". Ansar
Burney added.
He said on Thursday morning the body of another Pakistani
Mohammad Safeer, 25, came to Islamabad for burial that
died of excessive bleeding from gunshot wounds. The
body of Mohammad Safeer, who was shot at by the Coastguards
on Ras Al Khaimah mountains on May 22 while trying to
enter UAE illegally, came to Pakistan on Thursday morning.
Ansar Burney said that in another case, the decomposed
body of Afzal Hussain, 30, from Parachinar, was found
in UAE on the mountains adjacent to Oman, few weeks
ago and was brought to Pakistan for burial.
Burney
to challenge students' deportation in European Courts
Monday July 12, 2004
KARACHI, July 13 (Online): Ansar Burney Welfare
Trust International and Prisoners Aid Society Monday
announced to challenge the deportation of ten Pakistani
students from Cyprus in the European Court of Human
Rights.
Ansar Burney Advocate in a statement said that these
Pakistani students were not involved in any kind of
terrorist activity and asked the United Nations to make
it clear that every Pakistani or Muslim is not a terrorist
nor have links with terrorist groups including Al-Qaida.
After the arrest of 10 Pakistani innocent students
in Cyprus and their illegal deportation on invalid and
so-called terrorism charges, that gives a bad name to
Pakistan and Islam, the Chairman of the Trust, warned
international community that such nonsense steps of
foreign Countries are augmenting hatred among the peaceful
human beings.
He said terrorists should face justice either they
are Muslims, Jews, Hindu, Christian or of any religion
or of any nationality, but not innocents.
"There should be no discrimination on cast, colour,
creed, religion etc. in between the human beings,"
Burney added.
The human rights lawyer, Ansar Burney, said he was
not convinced by the Cyprus government's case.
"The Cyprus government has no evidence to prove
that these people were Al Qaeda or any other terrorists
groups members. We don't believe this was a genuine
security case in Cyprus, none of it makes sense,"
Mr Burney said.
Ansar Burney said that hundreds of Pakistanis have
been victimised of the global campaign against terrorism
after 9/11. Most recently the 10 Pakistani students
have been arrested in Nicosia Cyprus on 7th July 2004
on allegations of having links with Al-Qaida, without
any proof.
These students were arrested from the south cost resort
of Larnaka after US intelligence's warnings to Cypriot
authorities that foreign interests on the Island could
be the targets of attack.
He asked the relatives of 10 Pakistani students deported
on terrorism charges from Cyprus to contact Ansar Burney
Welfare Trust International at 6 Hassan Manzil, Arambagh
Road, Karachi or by phone (021) 2626274, 2628719, 2623382,
2623383 Mobile: 0300 8243459 in this regard.
"It is most unjustified that whenever there is
intimation of terrorist attacks or terrorism anywhere
in the world only Pakistanis and Muslims are blamed
and being victimised," he held.
These Pakistani students were studying at a local college
in Cyprus. The director of the collage Mr. Nicos Nicolaou
has described all the ten students as "excellent
students".
A friend of one of the suspects in Cyprus said that
the Pakistanis did not know each other that well and
the only connection between them was that they went
to the same college.
"The Cyprus government deported all these students
despite that nothing have been proved against them.
This is worst human rights violation that on mere suspicion
the students are being deported. If the Cyprus government
has any suspicion about them they should be proved.
These acts of Cyprus government will bleak the future
of these students," Burney maintained.
In the meantime Ansar Burney in a letter to the Prime
Minister, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Interior Minister
Faisal Saleh Hayat has asked, as under what law eight
Pakistanis were handed over to United States.
Even Pakistan and the United States have yet to sign
an extradition treaty and no legal formalities were
met before handing over the Pakistani citizens to US,
he added.
He asked primer Shujaat about eight Pakistani citizens,
of them six alleged drug traffickers were handed over
during the President General Parvez Musharraf and Former
Prime Minister Jamali's government to US and two of
them were handed over during the Nawaz Sharif tenure.
According to the report, the alleged drug traffickers
handed over to the US are Izharul Haq, Abdul Gaffar
Khan, Gulat Khan Khattak, Haji Sher Bahadur, Haji Omar
Buksh, Zaman Khan, Abdul Sattar and Abdul Sattar.
Pak students deported from Greek Cyprus not
from Turkish Cyprus
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Monday clarified
that the ten students deported from Cyprus were deported
from Greek Cyprus.
"The arrest and deportation of the ten Pakistani
students were taken place in the Southern part of Cyprus,
which is under the jurisdiction of the Greek Cypriot
administration," said a press statement issued
here by the office of the representative of the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus.
"With regards to the news items of the arrest
and the deportation of ten Pakistani students from "Cyprus",
it is deemed necessary to make it clear that in the
Island of Cyprus there are two states, one as Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus and other is the Greek Cypriot
administration of Southern Cyprus," the statement
said.
Hence the arrest has no bearing on the Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus, which has full sovereignty on the
Northern part of Cyprus, it added.
Over 100 Pakistanis
reported missing in Iraq
Tuesday July 27, 2004
KUWAIT, July 28 (Online): Over 100 Pakistanis are missing
in war-ravaged Iraq where the recent spate of abductions
by militants to compel foreigners to withdraw from the
country may only add to their numbers, the local Kuwait
News Agency (KUNA) reported.
The missing Pakistanis comprise jobseekers lured by the
offer of greener pastures abroad by an agent who charged
some Rs.6 million ($102,933) from each of them and promised
jobs in the European Union.
"But when they reached Iraq, the agent dumped
them there owing to the US-led invasion," sources
in Pakistan told KUNA.
"Since then, they are stranded there. Some have
managed to escape while others have been taken hostage."
However, there has been no official confirmation of
the number of Pakistanis missing in Iraq.
That Pakistanis were in Iraq first became known when
parents of two missing cousins - Nadeem Hameed and Arshad
Haieder - approached the government and the International
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust (IAWT), seeking
help for their release.
The anguished parents asked the government to help
them by contacting the Iraqi government and Pakistani
embassy in Iraq.
Nadeem's father Abdul Hammed said he had been receiving
calls from his son since the last two months.
"My son told me that he, along with a group of
around 400 Pakistanis, has been taken hostage by some
insurgents, who have imprisoned them in an underground
camps at an unknown place in Iraq," he said.
The insurgents instructed their hostages to call their
homes in turn every one-two weeks and ask their parents
to appeal to the Pakistani government to contact the
Iraqi authorities for their release, he added.
It is still not clear what the kidnappers have demanded
as ransom and why they have imprisoned them.
23 Camel Jockey
boys brought back home from UAE
Thursday September 02, 2004
KARACHI, September 03 (Online): Twenty three 'camel
jockey boys' from the ages between five to seven years,
released from the slave labor of one of Middle East
country, were brought back home on Thursday.
The Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
Ansar Burney Advocate in a recent visit of UAE got them
released from the slave labour, where these children
were working as 'Child Camel Jockeys' for at least 18
hours a day with hot temperature of 50 degree and above.
During his weeklong stay in UAE Ansar Burney visited
different camel racing tracks and found these innocent
children on slave labour in miserable conditions. Later
Mr Burney rescued twenty-three of them and on Thursday
brought them back to Pakistan.
Those who arrive on Thursday two of them Shakil (7)
and Naeem (5) have injuries due to sodomy with them
in the camps.
After arrival the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
sent sixteen children to their homes in far flung areas
of Punjab while seven of them took refuge in Trust center.
Dead Body of
'Child Camel Jockey' to arrive
Thursday October 07, 2004
DUBAI, October 08 (Online): The dead body of a five
year old Pakistani boy working on slave labour as 'Child
Camel Jockey' who fell off a camel during a race on
15th of September and died later in Al-Ain hospital
UAE on Tuesday evening (28th September, 04), will be
sent to Pakistan on Friday night.
This was announced by the human rights organisation
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International.
Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International,
Prisoners Aid Society and Bureau of Missing and Kidnapped
Children/Persons, Ansar Burney, Advocate said that Mohammad
Kaleem (5) son of Mohammad Hussain, fell off the camel
during camel race training in Al Ain, UAE on Wednesday
morning (15th September 2004), and camel ran him over
leaving serious head injuries, later he died in Al-Ain
hospital on 28th September. Kaleem suffered serious
head and body injuries, when he fell off the camel during
race.
Renowned human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney,
Advocate has said on Thursday that all the arrangements
have finalised to send the body of the innocent boy
back to Multan, Pakistan on Friday night for burial.
Call
for release of two-year old girl prisoner
Sunday October 10, 2004
ISLAMABAD, October 11 (Online): Ansar Burney,
a human rights activist, has strongly condemned the
award of three years imprisonment to a two-years old
baby girl by a Political Administration Court in Southern
Waziristan and termed the verdict a blatant violation
of UN Human Rights Charter and child rights.
He said that the political administration of Waziristan
has announced 3 years imprisonment to a two years old
infant baby girl, Zarmina, in Southern Waziristan.
He said the inhuman action was also against the constitution
of Pakistan.
He said four children Tahir Khan, 8, Iran Khan, 7,
Khalil Muhammad, 3, and Zarmina, 2 were convicted for
three years and had been languishing in the prison,
with their mothers and other family members.
He urged President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz to intervene and order the immediate
release of the innocent baby, Zarmina.
He said that political administrations of the tribal
areas were excessively abusing the already controversial
Frontier Crimes Regulation to nab close relatives of
the suspected outlaws.
Burney further said there were more than 80 juvenile
inmates were detained in various jails of the Frontier
under the FCR.
"Most of the minor prisoners have been behind
the bars since long and they are denied the right to
challenge their sentences in the superior courts",
he said.
The human right activist further informed 17 children,
both boys and girls, below the 12 years of age were
currently languishing in the Central Jail, Haripur in
NWFP alone, for the crimes, he claimed, they had never
committed.
He demanded for the immediate release of women and
children imprisoned under the FCR in NWFP prisons.
768
more Pakistani prisoners from Oman arrives back home
Wednesday December 29, 2004
 KARACHI,
December 30 (Online): Another batch of 768 poor Pakistanis,
held for illegally entering Oman in search of jobs and
had been in the Muscat Jails, returned home on Wednesday
in a Boat Al-Mohammadi-2.
The Boat Al-Mohammadi 2 brought 768 released Pakistanis,
at Ghasbander, Keemari, where Syed Fahad Burney, Vice
Chairman of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
and Syed Sarim Burney incharge of the Trust received
them.
According to Syed Fahad Burney, the immigrants belonged
to various parts of the country and were arrested some
time back while trying to enter illegally via sea route
in the Gulf state to seek lucrative jobs.
 These
innocent Pakistanis were smuggled to Middle Eastern
countries by the influential human smugglers, while
showing them the dream of brighter future.
The immigrants after selling their households paid
huge amounts to the human smugglers. Some of them had
even taken loans on interests and paid to the agents
to go abroad for earning, said Syed Fahad Burney.
These mostly illiterate job seekers were arrested and
put in the jails by Muscat authorities for illegal entries.
"These deportees were smuggled to the Gulf state
through Iran after they paid huge amount of money to
the agents", Fahad Burney added.
SHC
seeks comments on alleged killings
21 April 1998
Tuesday 23
KARACHI: The Chief Justice of Sindh High Court
Mr Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad has asked the secretary
ministry of interior for immediate comments, and action
if taken, in the matter of alleged extra judicial killings
of 30 prisoners arrested in Karachi and later killed
and buried in Islamabad. The Chief Justice took the
action on an application filled by Ansar Burney advocate,
Chairman Ansar Burney welfare trustl a few days earlier
where he had prayed that the 'government has failed
to make known the burial place of 30 prisoners arrested
from Karachi and after killing buried them in the high
mountains in Islamabad' as recently disclosed by the
Interior minister.
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