Missing person case: LHC issues notices to intelligence chiefs, Punjab IG

Directors general of ISI, MI, IB.

RAWALPINDI:

The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday issues notices to the heads of all intelligence agencies and the defence secretary in a missing persons case.

The move came during the hearing of a petition filed by Nazima Bibi, the mother of a missing person, Nawabzada Khan Badshah. She hails from Waziristan and is currently living in Wah Cantonment.

Bibi mentioned in her complaint that in March 2013, two months after their migration to Wah, five to six men in plain clothes entered her home and took her sons Nawabzada Khan Badshah and Dr Nawabzada Nek Badshah.

When she asked where they are being taken, the men “replied they will return soon”, she maintained in the petition.

Taufiq Asif, representing the petitioner, said Dr Nek ran an NGO called Sangam Development Organisation, and returned home after sometime.

Dr Badshah told the police that they were taken by personnel of the intelligence agencies.

Nazima had filed First Information Report (FIR) in the Wah Cantonment Police Station in May 2013 after her sons failed to return home. One year later, Nazima’s case was taken up by Justice Ijaz Ahmad of the LHC on Wednesday.

The petitioner’s council claimed that Khan Badshah is in the custody of intelligence agencies.

The court issued notices to the directors-general of Inter Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence, the Intelligence Bureau, the inspector general of the Punjab Police, and the defence secretary, asking them to file their replies by March 28.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2014.