Islamabad: Chief Justice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry directed secretary defence to produce Yasin Shah of Mardan on Tuesday (today) and others or appear in person before the court.
The CJP while hearing different petitions for alleged missing persons observed it appeared that the incumbent government was following footsteps of its predecessor as abduction of the citizens had not been stopped.
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Jawad S Khwaja and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, was hearing different cases related to missing persons here at the Lahore Registry.
A senior joint secretary and director legal of the Defence Ministry appeared before the court along with an additional attorney general (AAG) in the case of Yasin Shah, allegedly detained by the army.
The director legal told the court that the alleged missing person was not in the custody of the army and efforts were being made to trace him.
But the court pointed out that the Superintendent of Malakand Internment Centre, Ataullah, had submitted a statement before the Peshawar High Court two years ago that the army had handed over 35 persons to him and later took them away from the internment centre. He had admitted in his statement that Yasin Shah was among those detainees.
CJP remarked that the court had been asking the authorities for the last ten years to mend their ways but no importance had been given to the directions.
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