The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Saturday directed the security agencies to register an FIR against every individual they took into custody for interrogation.
The committee, headed by Mian Raza Rabbani, decreed that security agencies shall inform the relevant SHO of the area from which the citizen would be arrested and said that relatives and legal counsels of the arrested would be allowed access to the arrested. Redrafting policies to resolve the issue of missing persons, the committee mandated upon the law enforcing agencies to present the arrested at magistrate’s court within 48 hours of their arrest.
Similarly, the accused would have the right to a lawyer and security agencies would be required to carry out investigations and submit a challan within 21 days of the arrest.
Talking to sources, Rabbani said that the committee had finalized ten recommendations which would be tabled at the National Assembly. He said that t representatives of PPP(Sherpao) and Balochistan National Party were not present when the recommendations were finalized. He said the recommendations would be made public after consultation with the two parties.