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The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the government to resolve the issue of missing prisoners of Rawalpindi’s Adiyala Jail until Tuesday. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the case pertaining to the missing prisoners on Monday. During today’s hearing, the chief justice said that […]
The National Assembly has passed a bill, allowing the country’s security agencies to record phones and use e-mails and text messages as proof in trials in terrorism-related cases. Rights groups are concerned at the possible misuse of the legislation, as such laws have always been misused by the state institutions especially when they deal with the […]
Former chief minister and Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal on Thursday presented five recommendations for the province in the Supreme Court, saying that pardons and packages would not resolve the issue. The nationalist leader was appeared in the court to provide it with assistance on the issue. A three-judge bench headed by […]
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said that the death squads of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) should be abolished. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Chaudhry resumed the hearing on the law and order situation in Balochistan. Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal, who is a former chief minister of […]
Expressing concerns over the arrival of United Nations’ mission to investigate the issue of enforced disappearances in the country, members of the parliament (MPAs) termed it the first step to disintegrate Pakistan. On Monday, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances held meetings with Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal and officials from the Ministry of […]
Islamabad: (Thursday, July 26, 2012) Hearing the case about law and order situation in Balochistan, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has directed the Inspector General Frontier Corps to give in writing that he will recover the missing persons otherwise FC personnel named in the FIR would be arrested. A three member bench of the apex […]
Quetta: (Wednesday, July 11, 2012) Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who is in Quetta these days to here the missing persons case along with the suo moto notice on law and order situation in Balochistan, said here today that the problems Baloch people facing these days could have been amicably resolved had there been a […]
Giving another deadline to security agencies, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered the authorities concerned to recover all missing persons within a week. Hearing a case pertaining to law and order situation in Balochistan, the chief justice summoned DIG Frontier Constabulary Farrogh Shezad to appear in court on Wednesday. He also directed the […]
Missing persons’ commission claims to recover 30 people in June Islamabad: (Tuesday, July 3, 2012) The commission formed to investigate the missing persons and to make efforts to locate them said on Monday that it has recovered about 30 people in June alone. According to a statement issued by the office, it prevailed that about […]
HRCP stands firm on submitting verified cases of disappearances to inquiry commission Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that it has consistently submitted complete and verified information to the various official probes into enforced disappearance. HRCP said this in a statement following comments by Justice (r) Javed Iqbal, head of an inquiry […]
Missing Persons case in Balochistan: Deputy AG resigns Quetta: (Tuesday, May 22, 2012) Unable to satisfy the apex court’s bench hearing the missing persons case in Quetta, the deputy Attorney General of Balochistan, Malik Sikander, has resigned from his position. Commenting on his decision to first walkout of the court and later on submitting his […]
16 missing persons in custody of agencies; Advocate General Quetta: (Monday, May 21, 2012) The Advocate General told the Supreme Court Quetta today that around 16 missing persons were in custody of the security agencies. Resuming the hearing today about missing persons and about the deteriorating law and order situation in Balochistan, Chief Justice of […]
