The Sindh High Court on Monday put ISI DG, MI DG, IB DG, Defence Secretary, Sindh Home Secretary, Sindh AG, Sindh DAG, Sindh IGP and Karachi CCPO on notice and directed them to submit comments in a missing person case.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi issued the directives to the respondents while hearing Ayesha Afzal’s constitutional petition seeking the whereabouts of her missing husband who was allegedly abducted by the intelligence agencies in April.
Afzal said that her husband left the house on April 22 to offer the Friday prayer at a mosque in the Bolton Market area, but he never returned.
She said that her husband was picked up by the law enforcement and intelligence agencies because, according to her, the locals told her that some plainclothesmen had forcibly taken her husband away.
She also said that she has no knowledge of the whereabouts of her husband since his disappearance. She requested the court to issue directives for locating him and producing him before the court. She further said that her cousin Masood Memon was booked in the Daniel Pearl murder case and handed over to the US authorities who shifted him to Guantánamo Bay.
When Memon was released after two years, he was suffering from a dangerous disease that finally caused his death, she added. She expressed her concern that her husband might share the same fate. The petitioner submitted through her counsel that if there is a criminal charge against her husband, he must be brought before the court.
The court put the respondents on notice and directed them to submit comments in the next hearing, the date of which would be fixed later by the court.
