Chief Justice says that only a few of the missing people were recovered only after numerous notices and proceedings. PHOTO: FILE
Advocate General Balochistan Amanullah Kinrani informed the court that his office had yet to receive the notification under which governor’s rule was imposed. He added that a copy would be submitted to the court the moment the notification arrived.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry leading a three-judge bench had taken up the petition of filed by Balochistan High Court Bar Association represented by its president Malik Zahoor Shahwani and vice president Sajjid Tareen against the rising terrorism, kidnapping for ransom and alarming increase in enforced disappearances.
Among the absentees were the counsel for Balochistan government Advocate Shahid Hamid, chief secretary and the provincial inspector general police.
The court asked the Balochistan advocate general about the status of culprits responsible for twin bombings in Quetta which resulted in the death of 87 people. Kinrani replied that none of those responsible had yet been arrested, to which the chief justice regretted that the administration did not want to arrest the criminals. “Scores of people have gone missing in the province, but only few [of the missing] have been recovered despite many proceedings and orders of the apex court on the issue,” the chief justice observed.
"From day one the court has been asking for the enforcement of fundamental rights of the people but nothing had been done. Both police and the Frontier Corps (FC) were at each other’s throats instead of concentrating on improving law and order," the chief justice lamented.
The chief justice also explained that the SC’s October 12, 2012 order had only held the provincial government and not the provincial assembly responsible for failing in controlling the law and order situation in Balochistan.
The court postponed further proceedings till January 29 and summoned a compliance report from the federal as well as provincial governments in this regard.
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He is either too naive, or too conniving.
If the "Chief Justice" would punish terrorists caught by the FC instead of releasing them then perhaps we'll see less terrorist attacks!
Too little, too late! The continued genocide of Shias and Hazaras couldn't wake his conscience. Even now he is trying to dilute the severity of the situation by clipping it with missing persons. What a shame!
its all about fixation of CJP's fixation on missing persons, everything else is secondary. BTW those missing could be the late sucide bombers.
What a Chief Justice!
Where did missing persons come into this? I thought this was about Shia killings?