KARACHI, Jan 9: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has condemned the ‘picking up’ of the Dera Bugti district Nazim Mohammad Kazim Bugti by intelligence agencies and demanded that he be released immediately or produced and tried in court.

In a press statement issued here on Tuesday, HRCP officials Iqbal Haider and Zohra Yusuf expressed concern over the ‘illegal practice’ of enforced disappearances that was increasing at an alarming rate, and said that 50-year-old Kazim Bugti had been picked up by Military Intelligence (MI) personnel from Abdullah Haroon Road in Saddar on Nov 29, 2006.

They also demanded that the law under which Mr Bugti and other people had been detained, the court in which they were being tried and places where they were being kept be disclosed and lawyers and relatives be allowed to meet them.