Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi is a Pakistani human rights activist based out of city of Karachi. He was a correspondent for the Human Rights Commission South Asia and the chief editor of Weekly Special Report. He is known to have registered cases against K-Electric, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, Government of Sindh and for IDPs. He moved the Sindh High Court for judicial inquiries into the Ashura blast and targeted killings in Karachi. He also moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) challenging the eligibility of the beneficiaries.
Amnesty International reported that Iqbal Kazmi was abducted on 6 June 2007. He was reportedly tortured and he later regained consciousness the following day in a park in the Clifton area of Karachi. His kidnappers told him that he would be killed unless he left the city by 12 June 2007.
On August 1, 2007, the wife of Iqbal Kazmi was kidnapped while she was on her way to high court to meet her husband who had been arrested on fraud charges on 12 June 2007.
The Police refused to register an FIR against the assailants. However, the Additional District and Session Judge, Karachi South, Mohammed Azeem, the police register an FIR against those involved in the attack.
On June 12, 2007, Iqbal Kazmi was arrested by police in cases of cheating, and was sent to judicial remand until June 16 by a judicial magistrate at the Malir Cantonment court. Police stated that Kazmi had given checks to individuals that were dishonored later. KazmiâÂÂs lawyers alleged that the cases were fabricated against him. Sadia Kazmi also alleged that she had not been provided with the FIR about the crime.
In court, Kazmi stated that he had been jailed because he had threatened that he would go on hunger strike in front of Sindh chief minister's house.
Kazmi was granted bail by the Sindh High court on 18 August 2007. His next hearing was expected to be heard on 22 August 2007.