‘On the directions of the minister for interior, the home secretary of Punjab has formed a joint investigation team comprising Rawalpindi City Police Officer as convener, representatives of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), special branch, Crime Investigation Department (CID) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as members,’ a letter issued by the National Crisis Management Cell to Ms Janjua said.

Ms Janjua is required to nominate representatives from her side so that a meeting of the team is convened soon.

Ms Janjua, who has been campaigning for the release of missing persons, including her husband Masood Janjua since 2005, appreciated the gesture, but refused to close the camp until she was clearly informed about the fate of her husband.

‘Enough is enough, I am not going to budge until informed about my husband,’ she told reporters.

She said she was taken to the interior ministry in a car and was dropped at the camp after she had received the letter.

Taking notice of the families sitting in a camp outside the apex court, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry had on Nov 4 ordered the interior secretary to submit a complete report about the husband of the human rights activist.

Islamabad IGP Kaleem Imam, Interior Secretary Qamar Zaman and Rawalpindi RPO Aslam Tareen appeared before the bench to report that cases of 416 missing persons were subjudice in the apex court since Sept 2006.

However, the report said the interior ministry was trying to trace them; 241 missing persons had already been traced while 175 were still untraced.

It also said that particulars of missing persons were being collected and help of Nadra has been taken in this regard.

Lists of missing people have also been sent to provinces and law-enforcement personnel to enhance efforts to locate them.

A special task force has also been formed for the purpose.