ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Wednesday issued notices to the ministry of interior and the ministry of foreign affairs in a petition filed by Barrister Mohammad Javed Iqbal Jafree seeking what he said recovery of 150 children from Afghanistan.

The Chief Justice of the IHC put off the hearing till Thursday after issuing notices to the respondents.

The petitioner said the children had allegedly been abducted by the American government in connivance with the previous Pakistani government.

According to him the children were picked up by the agencies along with there parents and they were still kept at unknown places in Afghanistan, Barrister Jafree further alleged.

He has prayed to the court to direct the authorities concerned to arrange for the return of these children.

In another case a division bench of the IHC comprising Justice Muhammad Munir Paracha and Justice Dr Sajid Qureshi asked the government lawyer to submit details of a terrorism case after the father of two accused brothers moved the court seeking trial of the accused in open court.

Rehan-ud-Din Khan Golra lawyer of the two brothers Faisal Mushtaq and Qasim Mushtaq allegedly involved in two suicide blasts in the federal capital July last year has challenged a notification of Chief Commissioner Islamabad asking the trail court to hold the trial in the jail as the case was of sectarian nature

Lawyer of the accused has adopted before the court that the case was not of sectarian nature so the court should not conduct trial of the accused inside the jail.

The capital police arrested the two brothers, residents of Kotli Sattian on August 20, 2007 from the jurisdiction of the Bhara Kahu police station. According to the police they also recovered hand grenades and suicide vests from the accused.

During initial interrogation police claimed the accused had a role in two suicide blasts, one on July 17 outside Islamabad district courts and other on July 27 at Abpara market.

Meanwhile Rawalpindi bar representatives forced their colleagues not to appear in courts after 10:30 am in line with a decision taken by Punjab Bar Council.

High Court Bar Association (HCBA) General Secretary Malik Siddique Awan told Dawn that the bar representatives stopped their colleagues from appearing before any court after 10L30 am and requested the judges to adjourn the cases as lawyers would not appear before them.

The lawyers had been observing boycott of the court proceedings since November 3 reinvigorating their movement for the reinstatement of all deposed judges and the chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

The high court had to re-list almost all cases in the absence of attorneys.