ISLAMABAD (PEN) : The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued written verdict on missing person observing that “every missing person will definitely come back to his family.”
Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani issued the four-page written verdict making the undertaking of the attorney general part of the veridct.
The attorney general gave an undertaking to the court on behalf of state and law enforcement agencies that “every person who has been missing will return to his family, come what may.”
According to the attorney general, a committee on ‘enforced disappearance’ comprising federal minsters have prepared its recommendations which will be presented before the court after approval from the cabinet.
The attorney general told the court that solution of ‘enforced disappearance’ lies with political settlement. He assured the court that he had talked to the ‘All Powerful Quarters’ to solve this intractable matter once and for all.
Complainant lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari has submitted a list of three people to the court in this regard. Court expected Attorney General to inform it of whereabouts of these people in the next hearing.
It has also been stated in the exhaustive verdict that DG IB’s plea for formation of committee of law enforcement agencies on ‘enforced disappearance’ has been accepted.
ISI,MI, IB, can constitute a committee by including their second high-level officers. This committee can also add FIA, CTD officials.
According to verdict, previous orders are being amended by forming new committee of DG’s.
