The Sindh High Court has given one month’s time to the federal law officer to submit response of the secretary interior, IG Islamabad and other authorities to the petition calling for probe into alleged theft of original manuscript of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan.
The petitioner, Agha Syed Atta-u-Allah Shah, chairman of a non-governmental organisation, Raah-e-Raast Trust approached the court requesting it to order the interior ministry and IG Islamabad to register a case regarding theft of original draft of constitution and probe into the matter.
In the petition, Agha submitted that some news websites had published reports revealing that the original draft of the 1973 Constitution which bore the signatures of all the then constituent assembly members and president has been stolen.
He said that parliamentary sources had also confirmed that the original document of the 1973 Constitution was not available in the record and archives of the National Assembly. The petitioner said that former National Assembly speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza at the time of approval of the 18th Amendment wanted to see the original document of the constitution but she was informed that the original draft was missing.
