KARACHI: An urgent application was moved in the Sindh High Court on Monday in the case of ‘missing’ publisher and writer Abdul Wahid by Advocate Rehan Kayani.

The SHC bench directed the station house officer concerned to submit a progress report in the case at the next hearing set for Nov 3.

Earlier, a two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto had directed the police to prepare an inquiry report and submit it in court on the next date of hearing. However, the case could not be heard on the said date.

A constitutional petition was filed by Hani Wahid, 20-year-old eldest daughter of Abdul Wahid, on Aug 2, who impleaded the police, Rangers and other security agencies as respondents.

The petitioner, represented by advocates Salahuddin Ahmad and Rehan Kayani, submitted in the petition that her father was taken away by the security agencies personnel on July 26 in Sohrab Goth while he was coming to the city from an interior part of the province.

Published in Dawn October 18th, 2016