The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued the order to the PM Nawaz Sharif, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to recover missing persons within a week.
SC also ruled that legislation should be carried out in order to prevent forced disappearances, according to local news channel reports.
During the missing persons’ case hearing today, the court observed that its order to recover the missing persons was not being followed.
While expressing displeasure over the failure of recovery of missing persons before the court, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry commented that no law enforcing agency has the authority to illegally detain the citizen.
The acting Defence Secretary Maj Gen (R) Raja Arif Nazir replied that missing persons face serious life threats due to which their appearance is court is being prevented.
The court said that it was unacceptable that missing persons have not been produced before it even today.