PESHAWAR, Aug 18: The Peshawar High Court on Friday sought comments from the Inter Service Intelligence director-general and three other officials in a habeas corpus petition challenging alleged illegal detention of a man for about two years.

A bench of the court, comprising Justice Ijazul Hassan and Justice Said Maroof Khan, took up for preliminary hearing the petition filed by Ameena, wife of detainee Ibne Ameen, accusing the ISI of having taken away her husband in August 2004.

The court observed that further proceedings in the case would be conducted after receiving comments from the four respondents – ISI director-general, in-charge, ISI, Peshawar, and SHOs of West Cantonment and Faqirabad police stations.—Bureau Report