Missing persons’ case: Families may meet detainees, SHC told

K-P Department for Home and Tribal Affairs formulated standard operating procedure, Deputy Attorney General said.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) was informed on Wednesday that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government would allow the relatives to meet missing persons belonging to the Sindh province, kept in the army internment centres in the tribal areas.

In this regard the K-P Department for Home and Tribal Affairs has formulated a standard operating procedure (SOP), Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Ashraf Mughal said filing comments of the defence ministry during the hearing of missing persons cases.

Headed by Sindh Chief Justice Mushir Alam, the bench was hearing at least 40 constitutional petitions, filed by various citizens to seek the whereabouts of their relatives allegedly taken away by the law enforcement agencies.

During the hearing, the court had noted that the residents of Sindh, picked up by the law enforcers from parts of the province, had been unlawfully taken away from the SHC jurisdictions and interned in K-P.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd, 2013.