Top bureaucrats summoned in Balochistan case

QUETTA: The Supreme Court (SC) has summoned two federal secretaries and principal secretaries to the prime minister and Balochistan governor tomorrow over Balochistan law and order issue, Geo News reported.

The Interior and Defence secretaries would also appear before the bench in the case being heard by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

During proceedings the Chief Justice remarked that the time to suspend officials had passed and the court would now have to take some action.



The CJ noted that missing persons is Balochistan's burning issue and after observing no headway by federal intelligence agencies we are left with no option but to summon federal secretaries.

Advocate General of Balochistan, Amanullah Kinrani informed the court that five missing persons, who disappeared from different areas of Quetta, have been recovered from Karachi and three of them were being interrogated for their involvement in Lyari violence.

The AG also told the bench that there are evidences that intelligence agencies are involved in kidnapping of 16 men.

The President of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association informed the bench hearing the case that 18 journalists had been killed in the province, to which the Chief Justice ordered cases to be registered.

The Chief Justice was also accorded guard of honour upon his arrival at the Supreme Court's Quetta Registry.