ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was shocked on Wednesday when it came to know that mobile phone data record of a missing lawyer leads to a safe house of the country’s premier intelligence agency.

Citing a report prepared by the City Police Officer (CPO) of Rawalpindi, Additional Advocate General of Punjab Mustafa Ramday told the court that the cellular data recovery (CDR) analysis of phone calls made by Advocate Zaheer Ahmed Gondal had led them to the safe house of the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).

Zaheer Gondal was picked up by some unidentified people from Rawalpindi on July 13. His brother Tanveer Ahmed Gondal is believed to be an active member of a banned organisation operating in Punjab and suspected mastermind of the murder of FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar Ahmed.

Chaudhry Zulfikar, the investigator in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, was slain by gunmen who pumped 12 bullets into his body as he left his house in Islamabad on May 3.

He was killed on the day when a bail application of retired General Pervez Musharraf, a nominated accused in the case, was fixed for hearing before an anti-terrorism court.

Mr Ramday said that the CPO of Rawalpindi was trying to locate Zaheer Gondal.

If Zaheer Gondal was involved in some crime, the chief justice said, he should be arrested and prosecuted, but if he was innocent he should be produced before the apex court.

Deputy Attorney General Sajid Ilyas Bhatti said that the defence ministry had assured the government that the ISI would cooperate and share intelligence with the police.

The case will be taken up again on Thursday.