The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) on Thursday sought details from the Interior Ministry on proposed legislation regarding the issue of missing persons and anti-terrorism laws by May 31.
The PCNS also directed the ministry to provide comparative study resembling drafts of legislations of other countries having same laws especially, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others.
The committee also asked the members to submit proposals and recommendations for amending the existing laws by May 28.
PCNS met in camera at Parliament House with Mian Raza Rabbani in the chair to discuss existing laws on forced disappearance of people at the hands of security agencies and decided to compile draft of recommendations for amendments in the relevant laws to ensure release of disappeared people as well as to avert happening of such incidents in the future.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, PCNS Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said the committee reviewed the existing pertaining laws and asked proposals and recommendations from members by May 28. He added that details were also sought about the current state of implementation of two regulations namely PATA and FATA from concerned quarters.
He was also of the view that PCNS had also asked Ministry of Interior to provide draft of anti-terrorism law moved and then withdrawn in 2009. He observed that committee had further asked the ministry to prepare a comparative study of Pakistani relevant laws with other countries having similar legislations including Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others.
To a question, Rabbani maintained that PCNS was mandated to propose recommendations for amendments for legislation to the government and had not been delegated any power to amend the laws by itself.
