Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial directed the ministry to apprise the court about whereabouts of the missing persons. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to file its reply on a petition seeking recovery of a missing retired army officer and his son by January 14.
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial directed the ministry to apprise the court about whereabouts of the missing persons.
The chief justice issued the order when the police told the court that Major (r) Mujahid Azeem Tariq and his son Ali Tariq had links with certain banned organisations.
Police said the two men they may be in the custody of banned groups. Naeema Tariq had filed the petition for recovery of her husband and her son.
She said her husband had been missing for the last three months.
She said her son went missing soon after she approached the court. She said police and other security agencies had failed to recover them.
The petitioner requested the court to issue directions to the police and other security agencies to recover them.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2014.
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