Balochistan missing persons: SC orders recovery in 2 weeks

The CJ said solid evidence relating to the missing persons case was found against FC and other security institutions.


Web Desk August 27, 2013
Frontier Corps (FC), police and intelligence agencies have been given two weeks to recover the missing persons. The hearing has been postponed till the end of this period. DESIGN: SIDRAH MOIZ KHAN

QUETTA: The Supreme Court of Pakistan gave the Frontier Corps (FC), police and intelligence agencies two weeks to recover the missing persons, Express News reported on Tuesday. The hearing has been adjourned till the end of this period.

The attorney general said that immediate action will be taken to solve the missing persons case.

Those FC personnel whose names will be raised in this case will be investigated by the Crime Investigation Department.

The CJ said that solid evidence relating to the missing persons case was found against the FC and other security institutions.

The CJ had earlier asked the Inspector General Frontier Corps (IG FC), police and secret agencies to recover the missing persons by Tuesday.

He had also said that missing persons in FC custody be presented before the court as well.

The IG FC had claimed that the cases pertaining to missing persons are complicated. In response, the CJ had stated that not all cases are complicated except a few.

The case was heard at the Quetta Registry of the Supreme Court.

COMMENTS (1)

goldigger | 10 years ago | Reply

What about Asghar Khan case? What about 10's of missing and brutally killed and sometimes even torched Sindhi nationalists? No justice for them?

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