Police fail to trace out former Punjab CM’s aide

The whereabouts of the former chairman of the Chief Minister Complaint Cell, Zubair Ahmed Khan, who went missing from the Gulnar Colony area of Race Course Police Station earlier this month, could not be traced even after the passing of 23 days.

The family of the former Punjab CM’s aide has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Umar Ata Bandial to take suo moto notice on the issue for his safe recovery.

Zubair’s son Saad Zubair has adopted the stance in an application addressed to the CJP that his father was abducted by 12 unidentified persons when he was coming home from his office on the night of March 8.

“We searched him everywhere but his whereabouts are not being traced out. A case of his abduction was also registered in the Race Course Police Station while the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench was also approached but to date, he has not been recovered,” the contents of the application read.

“It is the constitutional responsibility of the state to protect the life and property of its citizens. Their dignity, liberty and freedom of movement are protected under the Constitution,” the application argued.

Zubair’s son said that his father was a close associate of former Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, alleging that the current government was targeting those who oppose its policies and were associated with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for reprisals through abductions and harassments.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 31^st, 2023.