Islamabad:
A larger bench in the High Court of Islamabad (IHC) summoned the Pakistan Attorney General on Thursday on March 6 in a case relating to missing persons, affirming that there was no progress on the government side on this persistent question.
At the head of the bench, the judge of the IHC Mohin Akhtar Kayani pointed out that it was the responsibility of the government and the forces of the law to respond to the families of the missing persons. He added that the state had failed to save the people because the case was from where it had started.
Judge Kayani said the case concerned the violation of human rights and that it created a bad image of the country internationally. He added that the court tried to end the issue of missing people, but the question would only end when all the disappeared people were recovered.
During the hearing, the bench asked if there was a restoring of a missing person since the last hearing of the case. In response, the Additional Prosecutor General (AAG) Munawwar Iqbal Duggal and a representative of the Ministry of Defense expressed ignorance.
Aaggal asked the court to authorize the government a little more time to inform the Progress Tribunal. However, the lawyer for the families of the missing persons, the defender Iman Mazari, opposed more time to the government, stressing that the court should determine the officials.
Sitting on the bench, judge Arbab Muhammad Tahir said that measures were taken to determine those responsible for disappeared. Mazari said that before the AGP gave assurances that there would be no forced disappearances, but that his insurances have been raped several times.
Judge Kayani pointed out that the state had not saved the people. He asked if there were data to show that a missing person died in a terrorist attack. He also noticed that the missing commission of inquiry and the federal government did nothing.
Judge Kayani said operations against Fitna al-Khawarij continued daily, which were laudable, adding that it was that if there was no justice forces, then “we cannot be protected at all “.
