QUETTA March 15: Wife of Ali Asghar Bungulzai, who was arrested in 2003 by an intelligence agency, has sought help from the Chief Justice of Pakistan in securing release of her husband.

Speaking at press conference here on Wednesday, she claimed that Muttihada Majlis-i-Amal leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed had said during a visit to hunger strike camp on March 13 that a former ISI official, Brigadier Sadiq, had admitted that Ali Asghar was in the agency’s custody.

She quoted Hafiz Hussain Ahmed as saying that he and her husband’s brother Dad Muhammad had met Brig Sadiq and they were told that Ali Asghar would be released after completion of investigation.

She appealed to the CJ to take notice of the detention of her husband and issue necessary orders for his release. She said that her young children had been observing a token hunger strike for 257 days but the government had taken no notice of their protest. The children, she said, had wasted one year of education because of the arrest of their father.