QUETTA, Aug 5 The three-member judicial commission constituted by the federal government for recovery of missing people held its third sitting here on Thursday.

Voice for Missing Persons Balochistan, an organisation working for the recovery of missing persons, boycotted the meeting.

The commission, comprising Justice (retd) Kamal Mansoor Siddique, Justice (retd) Fazlur Rehman and Justice (retd) Nasira Javed Iqbal, heard 14 cases on Thursday.

Representatives of government agencies informed the commission that out of 102 missing persons, 31 had been traced.

Officials of intelligence agencies, Frontier Corps, provincial home department and police attended the meeting.

Sources said that more people would record their statements before the commission in the next two days.

Nasarullah Baloch, the chairman of Voice of Missing Persons Balochistan, said that his organisation had boycotted the meeting because the government had not included a number of cases of missing persons in the list of cases to be heard by the commission. He said the list had been reduced by the government despite the fact that cases of thousands of missing persons were pending.

He said the government was not sincere in resolving the issue of missing persons.

Mr Baloch said names of Najibullah Lango, Ashfaq Mulazai and Farooq Mengal were not included the list, adding that the bullet-riddle bodies of three men were found in Quetta last month.