ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam of the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday gave the government a day to inform the court about its efforts to locate a Rawalpindi doctor who is missing since September 22.

“Everyone knows where the missing people are. If they are involved in criminal cases they should be produced before the courts,” observed the chief justice issuing the directive to the Crisis Management Cell Director, Javed Iqbal Lodhi and putting off hearing in the habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the missing Dr Abdur Razaq to Thursday.

The lawyer of the petitioner, Afzoona Kausar, informed the court about his fears that security agencies were holding Dr Razaq and may implicate him in a case of providing medical treatment to some terrorists.

The petitioner claimed in her petition that she received some dubious phone calls after the disappearance of her husband getting the impression that law enforcement agencies had taken way her husband and pleaded that the interior ministry could trace the phone calls to reach the abductors.

Dr Razaq disappeared on September 22 while returning home after attending his job at the Railway Hospital Rawalpindi at about 2pm. She said her husband had never been involved in any illegal or anti-state activities. If there were any allegations against him he must be tried in the open court, she contended.

ELECTION PETITION: Meanwhile Justice Raja Saeed Akram Khan of the IHC put off the hearing in an election petition after the respondent, PML-N MNA from NA-49 Islamabad-II, Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, appeared in the court on Wednesday and sought some time to file his reply.

The former MNA and a PPP candidate Nayyar Hussain Bukhari has filed the petition seeking recount of the votes poled in the February 18 elections in the constituency.

Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry won the election with a lead of 800 votes. The petitioner stated that when the presiding officer recounted the votes his polling agents were not present at the polling stations.