ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) has expressed its concern regarding the United Nations (UN) delegation investigating the missing persons’ cases at a committee session held in Parliament House here on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to the media representatives, the Chairman of the committee, Raza Rabbani said that he has directed ministers for interior and foreign affairs, as well as their secretaries to brief the PCNS next week in regard to the aims and objectives of the UN delegation visiting Pakistan.

He added that the committee will come up with a response after they have received the briefing.

Moreover, he said that there is no pressure on PCNS regarding the recommendations for the recovery of the missing people, further adding that this committee is free and independent of the Parliament.

Earlier on Wednesday, Ms Khar delivered a prepared speech in the earlier part of the day, said the two-member delegation of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which she met in Islamabad on Tuesday, was “neither a fact-finding nor an investigative mission”, as reported in the media, but part of “a special procedure of the UN Human Rights Council with a purely humanitarian mandate”.