Chief Justice orders FIR against accused ministers
Issues addressed include target killings by security agencies.
QUETTA:
During a hearing on the Balochistan security situation, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered an FIR to be filed against three ministers whose names were mentioned in Mir Zafarullah Zehri’s written statement, Express News reported.
A hearing on the security situation of the province is underway in the Supreme Court, Quetta Branch Registry in Balochistan, in which Provincial Interior Minister Balochistan‚ Mir Zafarullah Zehri’s written statement was presented in the court.
The statement contained information about the alleged involvement of provincial ministers in the incidents of kidnapping for ransom.
Based on the statement, the Chief Justice ordered an FIR to be filed against the three ministers whose names were mentioned in the statement and asked for evidence pertaining to the same.
On the occasion, President of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHBA) Zahoor Shahwani presented a record of Provincial Minister Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sadiq Imrani’s statement in the assembly in which it was said that security agencies were killing people.
Commenting on the statement which was filed two months ago, The Chief Justice addressed the Interior Secretary Naseebullah Bazai asking what he had done in this regard since then.
Bazai replied that in the past three years, 349 bodies have been found whereas in the last year, there there have been 203 instances of target killings.
Justice Tariq Parvez said that no security guard wearing plain clothes was allowed to roam around carrying weapons.
During a hearing on the Balochistan security situation, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered an FIR to be filed against three ministers whose names were mentioned in Mir Zafarullah Zehri’s written statement, Express News reported.
A hearing on the security situation of the province is underway in the Supreme Court, Quetta Branch Registry in Balochistan, in which Provincial Interior Minister Balochistan‚ Mir Zafarullah Zehri’s written statement was presented in the court.
The statement contained information about the alleged involvement of provincial ministers in the incidents of kidnapping for ransom.
Based on the statement, the Chief Justice ordered an FIR to be filed against the three ministers whose names were mentioned in the statement and asked for evidence pertaining to the same.
On the occasion, President of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHBA) Zahoor Shahwani presented a record of Provincial Minister Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sadiq Imrani’s statement in the assembly in which it was said that security agencies were killing people.
Commenting on the statement which was filed two months ago, The Chief Justice addressed the Interior Secretary Naseebullah Bazai asking what he had done in this regard since then.
Bazai replied that in the past three years, 349 bodies have been found whereas in the last year, there there have been 203 instances of target killings.
Justice Tariq Parvez said that no security guard wearing plain clothes was allowed to roam around carrying weapons.