Islamabad: Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) to produce seven detainees picked up the agencies outside the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi, today at till 3pm.
“Bring the detainees in court we are here till evening 7pm,” the CJ ordered Raja Arshad Kayani, counsel for the ISI and the MI. He said the agencies would have to produce them even in a helicopter.
“If prime minister could come here, then everybody could be brought here” Justice Chaudhry remarked.
He said that the agencies have taken them into custody and now they were responsible to produce them.
It is to mention here that, eleven prisoners, convicted for attacking the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi and the ISI’s Hamza Camp, had gone missing from the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi and later the agencies conceded that the missing persons were in their custody. Four of the detainees were later found dead.
The three member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry resumed hearing at 4pm after a break and was told that three detainees were being transported from Parachinar area of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa as weather didn’t allow helicopter flying.
Raja Arshad Kayani said four others detainees were admitted in Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.
However, the bench said the detainees be produced today at any cost.
The Met office said that weather was suitable for flights in Parachinar.
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