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QUETTA, Sept 20: The Balochistan High Court on Wednesday granted more time to the government to file detailed comments about missing people who had allegedly been arrested by intelligence agencies.
The bench, comprising Chief Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani, on Wednesday fixed Sept 25 for the next hearing.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Shar Bibi, mother of a tubewell operator of Wasa, Razi Khan, who was allegedly arrested by officials of an intelligence agency on Aug 11.
The SHO of the Shalkot police station presented a report in which he contended that the police had not arrested the man in question while the deputy attorney-general sought more time to file detailed comments.
MQM WORKERS: Three workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) quit the party in protest against its inaction over the killing of Nawab Bugti.
Addressing a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, Malik Naseer Ahmed Shahwani, Mir Ghulam Rasool Lehri and Mir Abdur Rashid Lehri blamed the ruling party, and its coalition partners in Sindh and Balochistan for what they termed the extra-judicial killing of the JWP leader. They said that they had joined the MQM in the hope that it would support the struggle for the rights of the Baloch people. They said that the MQM had announced that it would withdraw its support to President Musharraf if a military operation was launched. But the MQM did not keep its word. They also accused the Sindh administration of persecuting the Baloch people in Karachi after Nawab Bugti’s killing and said that the Sindh governor and MQM ministers in the Sindh coalition government had done nothing to stop the anti-Baloch action and had actually supported it.
