ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday took up the petition of a missing doctor’s wife and directed the interior ministry to furnish its comments in the case on Wednesday.

Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam directed the crisis management cell of the ministry to furnish its comments through a responsible official in response to the petition of Afzoona Kausar whose husband Dr Adbul Razaq went missing while coming home from Railway Hospital on September 22.

Making the interior ministry as respondent, she informed the court that she started receiving dubious phones calls at her home after the disappearance of her husband, adding security agencies could detect the calls and recover her husband. “My husband has never been involved in anti-state or unlawful activities and if there are any allegations against him he must be tried in the court of law,” she maintained.

Separately, the CJ directed the federal government to remove the name of Major (retired) Zahid Aziz, a former member of the Ponch district administration, from the Exit Control List and not to arrest him for one week after he returns to the country from Belgium.

Mr Aziz was member of the Ponch district administration before 1995 when the then government of Muslim Conference in AJK formed 31 cases of corruption against him.

Later, Pakistan People’s Party formed its government in the AJK and he was appointed administrator of the district. He also remained an adviser to the government from 1995 to 2000. In the year 2000, when he was in Belgium, the cases against him were re-opened.

Mr Aziz has prayed to the court that all the cases against him are politically motivated. However, when the court asked the standing counsel Aleem Abassi in this regard, he said the cases were genuine and he had to face them after his return to the country.