The petitioner, Sultana Noon, a Reprieve fellow in Pakistan, a UK based organisation dedicated to ensure the enforcement of human rights in prisons, filed the petition through Advocate Salman Akram Raja.
Representing the seven Pakistani citizens, detained at Bagram Theatre Internment Camp in Afghanistan, petitioner alleged that they were abducted from the prison and handed over to foreign countries without any reason.
They included Awal Khan, Hamidullah Khan, Abdul Haleem Saifullah, Fazal Karim, Amal Khan, Iftikhar Ahmad and Younas Rehmatullah.
Noon contended that the detainees were citizens of Pakistan suspected of wrongdoing. “They deserve to benefit from the presumption of innocence and the due process rather than be handed over for torture abroad,” she said.
She alleged that Pakistani authorities were involved in the abduction and extradition of these citizens.
She said that the respondent ministries be directed to make a representation, as required by law, on behalf of the abducted citizens of Pakistan and arrangements for their release and return to the country.
She asked the court to order registration of criminal cases against those involved in the abduction and the handing over of the innocent men.
Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif directed the standing counsel for FIA, present in the courtroom, to get a report and para-wise comments from the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs by October 19.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 5th, 2010.
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