Vets demand recovery of colleague 'missing' since 16th.

HYDERABAD -- Office-bearers and members of the Pakistan Veterinary Medical Association, Sindh zone, held a demonstration outside the local press club on Tuesday for the safe recovery of their missing professional colleague, Dr Ayatullah Jarwar.

Speaking to reporters, the association's president Dr Zahid Chachar and others said Dr Ayatullah Jarwar was a grade-17 officer in the fisheries and livestock department currently posted at Tando Bago. They said the doctor had been unaccounted for since Jun 16 and police were not cooperating with his family members in locating or recovering him.

Quoting Dr Jarwar's family, Dr Zahid Chachar said that some strangers knocked at the door of his house at around 1am on June 16 and asked him to accompany them to an undisclosed place. He said the doctor showed reluctance and made a call to his cousin, Nasrullah Jarwar, an office-bearer of the Tando Bago press club. However, the strangers had forcibly taken away the doctor before Nasrullah could arrive to help him out, he added.

The association believed that the strangers were personnel of some security agency in civvies and that Dr Jarwar...

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