KARACHI, July 4: The Sindh High Court on Monday, expressing dissatisfaction over the government statement regarding detention of three activists of Baloch Alliance directed the federal interior and defence secretaries to file personal affidavits on July 18. 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 along with six others by police and law enforcement agencies on March 26 from an apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

His counsel Abdul Hafeez Lakho said Imdad Baloch, with other party activists, agitating against ongoing military operation in Balochistan, especially in tribal area of Dera Bugti, were attending a party meeting when police raided the flat and whisked them away.

He informed the court that 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 last month.

But the whereabouts of remaining three-Allah Nazar, Nawaz Ali and Akhtar Nadeem were still unknown and it was not being disclosed by the LEA, he said.

A representative of ministry of defence today filed statement before court submitting three activists of BA were not detained or arrested by any agency working under the ministry.

He, however, refused to give copy of statement to petitioner’s counsel submitting he was directed to keep the statement secret and produce it only before court.

SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Ataur Rehman and Justice Khliji Arif Hussain, expressing dissatisfaction over the statement directed the secretaries of interior and defence ministries to file their detailed personal affidavits on the next date of hearing.—PPI