QUETTA: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday expressed annoyance over the non-recovery of the missing persons after the Inspector General Police Balochistan Rao Amin Hashim and Deputy Inspector General Frontier Corps Balochistan Brigadier Shehzad did not come up with the positive headway on the matter of missing person's recovery tasked by the court to them on Wednesday.
“It is a frustrating situation that the people have been picked up and not a single security agency has a clue about it, said Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry during a hearing on missing person's cases at Quetta Registry.
A three member bench of Supreme Court of Pakistan comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif and Justice Tariq Pervez continued proceedings on the third consecutive day on the missing persons issue and overall law and order situation in the province of Balochistan.
The bench completed recording the statements of the relatives of the missing persons and gave one more day to the IG police and DIG FC for the safe recovery of the missing persons after the later sought time from the court.
Advocate General Balochistan Amanullah Kinrani told the bench that Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani due to his scheduled commitment in Islamabad would not be able to appear before the court.
“He has a meeting with foreign delegation regarding the uplift schemes of the province,” he added.
Chief Justice remarked that the law and order situation is worsening in Balochistan and under the article (9) of the constitution it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that life and property of the people is protected.
Taking serious note of the two different statement of the provincial home minister regarding the involvement of the provincial ministers in the heinous crimes, the chief justice said that the home minister had maligned the constitutional government by making a false statement.
The chief justice directed the home minister to appear before the court and justify his statement on Friday to avoid action against him.
He maintained that on the part of provincial government until now absolutely no response has been witnessed regarding the law and order situation in Balochistan which tells us that no one is serious to resolve the plight of the masses.
Expressing dissatisfaction on the contention of the acting DIG police Hamdi Shakeel, he noted that there would be no gains until the credible information about the missing persons is revealed.
“Our government does not know who had picked up the missing persons, security agencies are blank on it then who else knows about these missing people,” he said adding no one seems ready to heal the wounds of the suffering masses.
Justice Khilji Arif said that we have observed people feel that forces have failed to live up to their expectations which they have now posed in courts.
The chief justice remarked that every person who appeared here had held FC responsible for the disappearances taking place in the province.
The bench recorded as many as 62 statements of the relatives of missing persons.