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QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that the dumping of bodies of missing people in Balochistan was creating hatred and sending a wrong signal across the country.
He was hearing a petition on the law and order situation and human rights violations in the province at the Quetta registry of the Supreme Court.
The petition was filed by Advocate Hadi Shakeel, former president of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association.
“The bodies of 204 missing persons were found in different parts of Balochistan over the past two years,” Advocate General of Balochistan Amanullah Kanrani informed a three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice and including Justice Tariq Pervez and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain.
Justice Iftikhar regretted that no cases had been registered against those involved in kidnapping people and dumping mutilated bodies. “If someone is involved in any crime he has to be produced before court for trial.”
He expressed displeasure over a report on security situation in the province over the past two years and ordered that a complete report be submitted at the next hearing on April 5.
The report was submitted by the advocate general and home and tribal affairs secretary of Balochistan. It does not have details about the 204 bodies found and 80 people kidnapped in the province during that period.
Advocate General Amanullah Kanrani said the number of bodies found in the province had now declined.
The chief justice said the bodies of 53 people were yet to be identified, adding that the report revealed that 80 people had been kidnapped and yet the advocate general claimed that the situation was improving. “Human being is human being; do you know when a family receives the dead body of their loved one, how they suffer; can you imagine. The provincial government appears to be helpless in maintaining the law and order situation. Where is the writ of the government?” he asked.
The chief justice regretted that there was nothing in the report about the recent Spiny Road incident in which six people were killed.
He said there were reports that some provincial ministers were involved in kidnappings for ransom. “If ministers are involved in such crimes then what a police inspector would do.”
He asked the Balochistan police chief why he did not record the statement of the home minister who had disclosed that three provincial ministers were involved in kidnapping for ransom.
“What roles security institutions, including the ISI, MI and IB, are playing for restoring peace in the province? A citizen kidnapped from Quetta is recovered in Waziristan,” the chief justice regretted.
The chief justice also expressed dissatisfaction over a report on the killing of wife and daughter of Bakhtair Khan Domki in Karachi and ordered submission of a complete report on April 5.
About violence in Karachi, the chief justice said a Supreme Court judgment on the issue had not been implemented in letter and sprit.
“Had the detailed verdict been implemented there would have been no killing of innocent people in Karachi,” he said, adding that the court had ordered the government to remove all ‘no-go’ areas, deweaponise the city and stop politicising police for a durable peace in Karachi.
