Detained persons divided into three categories

Deputy AG informs the court that defence and interior ministries are complying with the court orders.

PESHAWAR:

Government functionaries say court orders on missing persons are being implemented. Federal ministries’ officials assured Peshawar High Court (PHC) bench on Thursday that the PHC’s orders are being complied with and the detained persons are divided into three categories.

The PHC bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, adjourned hearing the cases till January 15. Earlier Deputy Attorney General Muzammil Khan informed the court that defence and interior ministries had been complying with the court orders. He added that the list will be produced before the court on December 18.

More than 100 missing persons’ cases were enlisted to the cause list where a number of relatives of the missing persons were present at the PHC’s courtyard seeking recovery of their loved ones.

Case 1

Izzat Begum was present outside court room 1 along with her family members, seeking release of her husband Iqbal Hussain, brother Shahzareen, brother-in-law Hazrat Hussain and two cousins Jahanzeb and Sardar Hussain, who she claimed were abducted by security agencies.

Begum, belonging to Ali Gram area of Kabal Tehsil in Swat District, informed media persons that her relatives went missing during the military operation from a displaced persons’ camp in Chamkani High School. She said police raided their room and inquired about male members of their family by saying they were providing them ration but picked them up and they have been missing since.

Case 2

Jamila, a resident of Mattani alleged that last year some security personnel raided her house and took her son, Laeq Shah, away.

Case 3

Gohar Rehman filed an application at the high court seeking action against West Cantt SHO Dost Muhammad, who allegedly abducted and killed his brother Ihsanullah.

Rehman said his brother was a former Afghan mujahid, who was picked up from Nauthia area of Peshawar last year. Later his family members received information that he has been killed and buried at Pajagi graveyard. Upon exhumation, he was identified and shifted to his ancestral graveyard in Shabqadar.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 30^th, 2012.