A mother of a missing youth in occupied Kashmir on Thursday said that she wanted to see her son, Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh, before her death. According to Kashmir Media Service, family members of the youth told media men that Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh, son of Late Muhammad Yasin Sheikh of Zamalgam, Dooru in Islamabad, was arrested by 1-Rashtriya Rifles during the intervening night of August 29 and 30, 1994 and his whereabouts are still unknown.
Recalling the day when Fayaz was arrested, his mother said, "That night he (Fayaz) was sleeping at his grandfathers house. The soldiers of Rashtriya Rifles raided the house and picked him up at about 10.30 pm," adding "next day when he was brought to the village in a bad shape." "The troops searched our house but could not find anything. He was taken back and this was the last time I saw him," she said as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Fayazs younger brother, Bilal Ahmad, while wiping the tears of his mother said: "Due to the trauma we lost our father in 1996. Later we kept visiting the army camp to get him released, but they denied his arrest."
With moist eyes, he continued, Police first refused to register the case. They traumatised my parents who sought judicial intervention in 1995. The high court directed the concerned police official SSP to ensure registration of the case and an investigation into the disappearance. Subsequently an FIR was registered in police station Dooru Shahabad.
A petition was also filed in the Human Rights Commission of occupied Kashmir. The commission issued notice to the local police authorities (dated March 27, 2001) addressed to the then Deputy Commissioner, Islamabad. "We want nothing but to see Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh," said family members of the disappeared youth.
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