PESHAWAR:
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has sought the intervention of Rawalpindi’s General Headquarters (GHQ) to form a board and inquire about a missing person who was found dead earlier in October.
The issue resurfaced during the hearing of a missing persons case on Tuesday, when counsel Fida Gull informed the bench that his client Anar Gull was no longer alive after having been allegedly picked up by security agencies on May 23, 2011. His body had been found on October 6 from Hassan Abdal.
The bench asked the inquiry board to collect information about under which authority and whose custody Anar Gull was being kept.
The court also summoned the Khyber Agency political agent and the assistant political agent of Jamrud to give replies about their alleged involvement in killing a man and his nephew, Syed Khan and Amjad Khan respectively. Amjad’s father filed a habeas corpus petition at the PHC alleging the Jamrud political administration for keeping his son in illegal detention.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2012.
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