Pak SC wants all missing Baloch produced in court within a week

Quetta, July 11 (ANI): Annoyed by non-implementation of the Supreme Court's orders, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has directed the Balochistan home department and law enforcement agencies to recover and produce before the court all missing persons in a week's time.

"It is regrettable that law enforcement agencies are not obeying the court's orders to produce the persons who disappeared," The Dawn quoted the CJP, as saying.

He said the authorities, including law enforcement agencies, were trying to prolong the missing persons' case and warned that such attitude would worsen the situation. If a missing person was wanted in any case, he should be put on trial, he added.

The home secretary informed the court that 101 people - 86 civilians and 15 policemen - had lost their lives in target killings in Quetta last month. Police arrested three terrorists who confessed that they had killed 24 religious scholars in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan.

Quetta police chief Mir Zubair said 56 terrorists had been killed. He said funds had been allocated in the budget to set up a forensic laboratory in Quetta.

The court said the government should use latest technology and equipment to trace the elements involved in sectarian and targeted killings.

The CJP said the major issue of Balochistan was law and order and a sense of insecurity.

"The people of Balochistan are patriotic and they feel insecure because of the deteriorating law and order situation. It is a responsibility of the government to provide security and protection to people," he said. (ANI)