KARACHI, Aug 10: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday, expressing dissatisfaction over the affidavits of federal interior and defence secretaries regarding detention of three activists of Baloch Alliance, directed them to file their complete affidavits about arrest and whereabouts of deainees.
The court was hearing a petition by Mir Noor Jan whose son Imdad Baloch, a student of Bolan Medical College Quetta, was allegedly taken away with six others by the police and other law-enforcement agencies on March 26 from an apartment in Gulistan-i-Johar.
His counsel Abdul Hafeez Lakho said Imdad Baloch, along with other party activists, agitating against ongoing military operation in Balochistan, especially in tribal area of Dera Bugti, were attending party meeting when police raided the flat and whisked them away.
Petitioner’s son and three others, Yousuf, Ghulam Rasool and Dr. Naseem Baloch, who were shown arrested by the Punjab police in a blind FIR in Dera Ghazi Khan, were later released and they returned home in June.
The contention of the petitioner’s counsel was that the whereabouts of the remaining three — Allah Nazar, Nawaz Ali and Akhtar Nadeem — were still unknown and it was not being disclosed by the LEA.
The affidavits of federal interior and defence secretaries were filed before the court denying the arrest of detainee, submitting that the three activists of the BA were not detained or arrested by any agency working under the said ministries.
SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Azizullah M Memon, expressing dissatisfaction over the affidavits, directed secretaries to file detailed affidavits about arrest and whereabouts of detainees on the next date of hearing which was fixed for Aug 25.—PPI
