Missing person’s case: FC IG directed to hand over complete record of detainee

Family says Yahya taken by security forces in 2011, only recently were they informed that he is detained at Fort Slop


Our Correspondent September 19, 2014

PESHAWAR:


The Peshawar High Court directed the Frontier Corps (FC) inspector general on Thursday to produce the complete record of a missing person currently detained at an internment centre in Bara, Khyber Agency.


A division bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain issued the orders after the bench learnt the missing person has been traced and is currently detained in Fort Slop.

According to Fazal Karim’s petition, his son Yahya was taken by security forces from Alam Gudar on September 15, 2011. He said the family had no clue about Yahya’s whereabouts for years until they were told he was being detained at Fort Slop.

CJ Miankhel remarked the court is given different answers about internment centres in every proceeding when the counsel of the political administration presented his arguments. We have asked about the authority that runs these internment centres numerous times, added the CJ.

In response to a show-cause notice issued to him in the said case, the FATA additional chief secretary said there are a total of five internment centres in the tribal areas that are directly controlled by respective wings of the FC.

The court then ordered the FC inspector general to produce the complete record of Yahya before the court by the next hearing, including the report of oversight boards, treatment during detention, length and reason of internment and investigation carried out in his case.

Admission quota case

The same bench ordered the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to produce the complete record, including educational qualification and domiciles, of students from Fata admitted to various state-run medical colleges in K-P on the quota reserved by the government.

Shabbir Hussain Gigyani, the lawyer for Haroon Zaid from Mohmand Agency, told the court the government has reserved 12 seats for students from Fata in K-P medical colleges. It has authorised the HEC to give students admissions through the National Testing Service (NTS). He added Zaid was refused admission despite topping the selection test.

The court was further informed that there are misappropriations in the admission process and students with bogus domiciles have been admitted to these colleges.

The court subsequently ordered the HEC to produce the records of all Fata students given admissions in K-P medical colleges before the next hearing.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th, 2014.

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