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KUALA LUMPUR - Wife of missing Pakistani journalist Syeda has urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and fellow Malaysians to help her in finding her husband, Syed Fawad Ali Shah.
“I appeal help from the prime minister and Malaysians to locate my husband.
“I don’t know what will happen to me after this press conference but I will fight for my husband till my last breath,” she said during a press conference, here.
She further said that her husband liked Malaysia as it prioritised human rights.
“My husband applied for a refugee status in Malaysia as it respects human rights and it practices moderate Islam,” she Syeda, a Pakistani national.
Commenting further, Malaysian Advancement Party (MAP) president P Waytha Moorthy stressed that Malaysia should prioritised all human rights issues eventhough the country did not signed the convention on refugees.
“Malaysia being a member in the United Nations human rights community should hear out all human rights.
“As a lawyer, we will do whatever possible to help Syeda,” he said during the press conference.
Fawad, an exile Pakistani journalist in Malaysia has been missing since Aug 23.
His wife is in Kuala Lumpur to look for him and a missing persons’ report has also been lodged.
She had previously claimed that she was told by Malaysian authorities that Fawad was deported to Pakistan. However, she had said there were no documents to show he left Malaysia.
Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin was still the home minister in August. The portfolio has now been taken over by Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution under the unity government elected in last month.
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