LAHORE: Inspector General Police of Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera will inform the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday (today) about the child abduction incidents and a strategy to be adopted to investigate the kidnappings.

The IGP would make a full presentation to the SCBA after which the bar would decide its future discourse which may include becoming a party to the case in the Supreme Court and offer its suggestions for improvement in the law and order, said a statement issued by bar president Barrister Syed Ali Zafar.

The SCBA constituted an emergency committee and requested the IGP to assist it to inquire into the rising tide of kidnappings of children.

Mr Zafar said the children were at the same time the most precious asset of the nation and the most vulnerable members of society and pointed out that the number of children being reported to be kidnapped was most alarming and dangerous.

He said the state was bound under Article 9 of the Constitution to protect lives of its children, and it was the highest duty of the government and police to save them from harm, and if one life of a child was endangered, it could be devastating.

He said the nation had woken up now on a matter which was in the closets that was why even the Supreme Court took jurisdiction of the issue and summoned the police to give a report in the matter.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2016