LAHORE, Dec 17: The human rights committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association on Wednesday staged a demonstration in protest against the “abduction” of nuclear scientists Dr Farooq and Dr Yasin Chauhan.

The LHCBA office-holders and members were holding placards and yelling slogans against the action against the Kahuta Research Laboratories’ directors, who have been associated with the KRL since Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan started it.

They told reporters that the nuclear scientists’ arrest and interrogation spoke volumes for the government’s unfair attitude towards the KRL and its officials.

The LHCBA officials said it was all the more embarrassing and deplorable that some foreign agencies were also involved in the operation of arrest and subsequent interrogation of the two scientists.

Dr Farooq, who has been awarded Hilal-i-Imtiaz for his services to the nation, is said to have returned home, but Dr Chauhan is reported still missing.

The bar office-bearers said the government should expose its intentions of arresting and interrogating scientists because this was the question of the country’s nuclear programme. “If no explanation is given, it will be understood that the government’s action is in advancement of a foreign agenda at the cost of the national interests,” they said.