Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday directed the authorities to post the newly-appointed police officers in Balochistan’s restive regions.
According to a private TV channel, the chief justice issued the directive during the hearing of a petition on the law and order situation and human rights violation in Balochistan at the Supreme Court’s Quetta registry.
A three-judge bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, was hearing the petition filed by the Balochistan Bar Association on the law and order situation in Pakistan’s largest province.
During the hearing, the chief justice remarked that targeted killings had severely increased in Balochistan, adding that, unknown persons come, kill people and then leave.
He asked Inspector General Balochistan Police, Tariq Omar Khitab, as to why had the 30 police and District Management Group (DMG) officers, who had arrived in Balchistan on the court’s orders, not been posted yet and what the police was doing about the situation.
The IG informed the court that a summary in this regard had been submitted to Chief Secretary Balochistan Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad.
Chief Justice Iftikhar said the law and order situation in the province’s Pashtun-dominated areas was better and gave instructions for the newly-appointed police officers to be posted in Balochistan’s restive areas.
Justice Iftikhar expressed his astonishment over the fact that several of the officers belonging to Balochistan had never served in the province even for a day.
