Tag: Persons

A three-member Supreme Court bench on Friday grilled Interior Secretary Khawaja Siddique Akbar for not paying compensation amount to legal heirs of missing persons...

A three-member Supreme Court bench on Wednesday directed Additional Attorney General (AAG) KK Agha to produce in court today (Thursday) the complete record of...

During the hearing of the missing persons’ case on Monday, Additional Attorney General KK Agha informed a three-member Supreme Court bench that the government...

Southern Command Commander Lt Gen Jawaid Zia has expressed concern over the series of killing of Baloch missing persons and the dumping of their...

The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) staged a sit-in in front of the National Press Club (NPC) on Tuesday against the drone attacks, the deteriorating law and...

Four bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons including a former zonal president of Baloch Students Organisation (Azad) were found from Kechh, Khuzdar and Gwadar on...

The murderers of renowned environmentalists Abdul Ghani and Haji Abu Bakar are still at large, as some powerful media personalities are giving them protection,...

A two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal was informed on Thursday that the government was considering a plan to...

Two more bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons were recovered from Kuchlak area, some 15 km away from Quetta on the Quetta-Chaman highway on Monday....

ISLAMABAD - Expressing dissatisfaction over the progress so far made in the recovery of missing persons, the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned the interior minister, provincial home ministers, home secretaries and inspectors general of police of all the provinces.
A three-member SC bench, comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, heard the cases of missing persons one by one. The court observed that parliament should legislate to

ISLAMABAD - During a hearing of the missing persons' case on Wednesday, Justice Javed Iqbal said it was government's responsibility and not Supreme Court's to recover these people whereas 222 missing persons had been traced due to the apex court's efforts.
According to a private TV, Justice Raja Fayyaz asked why this issue has not yet been raised in the parliament.
Moreover Justice Fayyaz ordered to submit complete details of the dead bodies found so far.
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KARACHI - The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) heard a total of eight cases of missing persons in the Pakistan Secretariat on Tuesday. Appearing before the commission, Abid, younger brother of Muhammad Arif Noor, who was allegedly killed after being abducted, repeated his previous statements saying that his brother was abducted by state-run intelligence agencies and was killed last month. Arif was an environment officer in the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA)

ISLAMABAD - Senate Chairman Farooq Naek on Thursday announced to constitute a parliamentary committee to suggest ways and means for the recovery of missing persons and overcoming target killings, particularly in Balochistan.
He told the Senate on Thursday that the committee would be constituted in consultation with the leader of the house and leader of the opposition. The committee would discuss the issue faced by Balochistan in detail and give recommendations for its

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered all provincial inspectors general of police to submit a comprehensive report on progress made so far in recovering the missing persons within a fortnight.
A three-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali was hearing a suo motu case coupled with various pleas for the recovery of hundreds of missing persons, allegedly abducted by intelligence agencies.
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QUETTA - Two bullet riddled-bodies of missing Baloch men were found in Windar, Lasbela on Wednesday, said police officials. The officials told Pakistan Today that police, on information, recovered two bodies from a deserted site in Winder. The bodies were taken to hospital for autopsy where they were identified as Arif Noor and Nawaz Marri. Both victims were shot in their chests and heads and died on the spot, said police. Arif Noor was an employee of Gwadar Development Authority and

LAHORE - The Punjab University PR department has issued a notification regarding a story published in the press with reference to continuation of the jobs of retired persons at Punjab University as against the verdict taken by the honourable Supreme Court.
The notification reads: The names of Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Honorary Adviser to VC Col (r) Ikram Ullah, Project Director Sheikh Muhammad Ali and Hailey College of Banking and Finance

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear the missing persons' cases on a day-to-day basis from Thursday to take the matter to its logical end, besides giving another chance to intelligence agencies to furnish details of the missing persons.
A four-member bench comprising Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said the case of each missing person would be heard separately. The court said a full day