PESHAWAR, Nov 29: The law-enforcement and intelligence agencies have been finalising the lists of the people in their custody in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining Federally Administered Tribal Areas to separate militants from ordinary suspects, Deputy Attorney General Muzamil Khan told a Peshawar High Court bench here on Thursday.

The information was shared with Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth during the hearing into around 110 cases of enforced disappearances.

After the assurance by the DAG that the said lists would be provided to the court in near future, the hearing was adjourned to Jan 15, 2013.

The DAG said the listing of detainees by the law-enforcement and intelligence agencies would help dispose of scores of petitions related to missing persons.

Earlier this month, the court had directed the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments to convene the meetings of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies and submit lists of detainees in their custody to the court.

When the bench took up for hearing the cases on Thursday, the DAG requested it to adjourn the hearing into the cases, saying law-enforcement and intelligence agencies had been holding meetings to decide the fate of detainees in their custody.

He said final lists of the said detainees would be produced before the court by Dec 18, the date fixed for hearing into several cases.

Mr Muzamil Khan said once these lists were prepared, it would clarify the situation and several cases could be disposed of then.

The bench observed that dozens of other missing person cases had been fixed for hearing on Dec 18 and therefore, the cases in question would be heard on Jan 15.

It directed the DAG to ensure that the detainees were properly categorised.

Meanwhile, two of the petitioners have claimed that their missing relatives were allegedly killed in custody and they had received their bodies.

One of the petitioners, Samiullah, informed the bench that his 45-year-old brother, Niaz Wali, had been missing since Jan 7, 2010, from Ekka Ghund area in Mohmand Agency and to the best of his information that he was picked up by the officials answerable to the political agent.

He said while the present petition was pending, he had received information from officials of Khazana police station that the body of his brother was found at a deserted place.

The petitioner requested the bench that as his brother was no longer alive and therefore, he wanted to withdraw the petition. However, the bench decided to keep the petition pending and summoned the relevant political agent on the next hearing.

Similarly, another petitioner Gohar Rehman said his brother, Ahsanullah, a resident of Shabqadar in Charsadda, had gone to Nauthia area in Peshawar when he was allegedly picked up by law-enforcement agencies and shifted to West Cant police station a few months ago.

The petitioner said his brother had remained missing for months before his body was found in a gunnysack.

The bench said he would hear the case on Jan 15.

Meanwhile, a woman petitioner from Swat, Izzat Bibi, informed the bench that one of her female relatives, Khalida, also a petitioner, attempted suicide in desperation over the non-recovery of her missing husband.

She said if the situation remained unchanged, other petitioners would follow suit.