Tag: Missing

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of the case of 11 missing inmates of Adiala Jail, now in custody of spy agencies, after it was assured by the intelligence agencies that arrangements had been made to facilitate meetings of the prisoners with their families.
Raja Muhammad Irshad, lawyer for intelligence agencies, told a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, that arrangement for

LAHORE - Former principal secretary to General (r) Pervez Musharraf, who had gone missing two days ago, reached home by himself on Sunday. Col (r) Manzoor told his family that he had gone to meet his friends to celebrate the New Year and nobody had kidnapped him.
Col (r) Manzoor went missing from outside his house in DHA's X-Block and his family had registered a kidnapping case on Saturday. Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Siddique said that Col (r) Manzoor has given him a

LAHORE - Police and King Edward Medical University (KEMU) administration is still 'clueless' about Dr Adeel Tariq, who has been mysteriously missing from the university's New Hostel since December 29, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Final year MBBS student Tariq left his room no 233 of the New Hostel at around 11:30 pm on Wednesday, telling his friend that he was going out for dinner. He had gotten back from his home in Rawalpindi the same day. Students came to know about his

QUETTA - The Balochistan Levies on Thursday found four bodies of missing persons in Kechh district's border town of Mund, some 500 kilometres west of Quetta.
According to police, the levies got a tip off after which they searched and found four bodies Mund, close to Iranian border. They were taken to a local levy station to be dispatched to Turbat District Headquarter Hospital for autopsy.
The men had been shot with a pistol at pointblank range in the heads and all bodies

ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission formed on the Supreme Court's orders for the recovery of thousands of missing persons from across the country will submit a comprehensive report with the SC and the Interior Ministry by December 31.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that the commission earlier had to submit its report on August 28. However, it could not do so for unknown reasons. The judicial commission was formed in March 2010 with Justice (r) Kamal Mansoor Alam, a former

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain on Monday sought comments of the ISI director general (DG) on media reports that the Jinnah Hospital Lahore's missing doctors was in the agency's custody. The judge observed, "Five months have passed since the news was published on July 17, 2010 that the ISI had picked Dr Ali Abdullah but until now the ISI has not issued any clarification about the news story." Justice Hussain was hearing a petition filed by Dr

MIRPURKHAS: Sindh police have failed to find its constable, who went missing six years ago. The constable, Abrar Ahmad, 29, was performing his duty in Umerkot district, when he was first reported missing in 2004. The miserable mother of the missing Abrar told Pakistan Today that he had gone to his work at Shadi Palli police station on Oct 4, 2004 but never returned.
Munni Begum, 70, with tears in her eyes said that when after ten days of wait, he did not return, her other son

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the deputy attorney general and Sindh advocate general to file comments supported with affidavits of Interior and Defence secretaries, the Sindh home secretary, the IGP and other police officials about the whereabouts of two Baloch youths, who were allegedly whisked away by intelligence agencies in Karachi.
A division bench comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Imam Bux Baloch was hearing a petition filed by Ms Ghahari on the

ISLAMABAD: The country's top intelligence agencies on Thursday conceded before the Supreme Court that 11 missing inmates of the Adiala Jail were in their custody and being tried under the Army Act.
When a three-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, resumed hearing the case of the 11 missing prisoners, Raja Muhammad Irshad, counsel for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials met Attorney General Anwarul Haq in his office on Tuesday and told him that there was a major breakthrough in the case of 11 missing inmates of Adiala Jail, sources told Pakistan Today.
They said just after the meeting, the attorney general filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the missing prisoners' case, fixed for hearing on December 13. According to the sources, the attorney general stated in his application that

KARACHI: More than 200 people have been abducted from various parts of the country in the tenure of the incumbent government - swelling the unofficial count of missing persons to more than 10,000 over the past nine years, Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP) Chairwoman Aamna Masood Janjua told Pakistan Today on Monday.
"Of the updated list provided by the DHRP to a federal-level inquiry commission, some 244 people have gone missing in the recent past. As many as 135 people

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussian has announced that PML-Q will raise the issue of the missing Ali Ayaz Fakhri, son of the prominent artist Jameel Fakhri, in the senate while talking to reporters at Jameel Fakhri's residence.
He urged the government to take immediate measures for the recovery of Ali Ayaz, who has been missing in the United States for 20 months, and suggested that Pakistani Ambassador in the US Hussian Haqani needed

LAHORE: Renowned TV actor Jamil Fakhri's son is still unaccounted for, even after the lapse of over a year. In this regard he held a press conference appealing for any kind of help to at least locate his son's body, in case he had died during this time.
Pakistan's diplomats in Washington said that the FBI had completed its investigations, and a report in this connection was expected in the next week. Pakistan's envoy in the US Hussain Haqqani had earlier filed a report with the

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwarul Haq on Wednesday submitted a reply in the Supreme Court Registrar's Office on behalf of chiefs of intelligence agencies, who said they or the agencies they were heading could not be made respondents in constitutional petitions.
The heads of the intelligence agencies also said in the reply that the 11 prisoners who went missing from Adiala Jail were not in their custody, adding that petitions filed by legal heirs of the missing prisoners or

WELLINGTON: Desperate efforts to reach at least 27 coal miners missing after an explosion tore through an underground mine in New Zealand stalled Friday as fears of another blast frustrated rescue attempts.
Police said the explosion at the coal mine on the South Island's west coast appeared to have crippled the mine's ventilation system but locals said they were were drawing hope from the rescue of 33 miners in Chile last month. Two miners survived the blast at the Pike River

PESHAWAR: Afghan Ambassador-Designate to Pakistan Abdul Khaliq Farahi, who was abducted in Peshawar city on September 22, 2008, was recovered on Saturday.
Confirming Farahi's recovery, his relatives and Afghan diplomats said, "Taliban militants handed over Haji Abdul Khaliq Farahi to his close relatives in Khost, bordering Waziristan, on Saturday." To relatives said Farahi was on way home to Kabul.
However, no details of the deal enabling Farahi's release after a period of

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Friday issued directions to the heads of the Inter-Services Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau and Military Intelligence to submit their comments by November 25 on the disappearance of 11 prisoners from Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
The bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a case of 11 prisoners who went missing from Adiala Jail, after allegedly being