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IHC JUDGE SEEKS NUMEROUS DEATH SENTENCES FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

IHC JUDGE SEEKS NUMEROUS DEATH SENTENCES FOR ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

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ISLAMABAD: In the issue of the missing Baloch students, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) summoned Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday, February 19.

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar. PHOTO: APP

Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Usman Ghumman told the court during today’s session that one missing pupil had been found. He asked the court to reschedule the hearing since the attorney general was not in the office.

Judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, however, turned down the AAG’s request and called the acting premier the following week. “PM Kakar must appear in person on Monday at 10 AM and explain why we should not register a case against him,” Justice Kayani insisted.

He went on to say that “those responsible for them should be given multiple death sentences” and that “the punishment for enforced disappearances should be the death penalty.”

The interior, defence, and human rights ministers were summoned to the case on November 26, along with PM Kakar.

The commission on the missing Baloch students made suggestions, which the court reviewed in its written ruling.

The decree said that 69 Baloch students had been harassed, subjected to racial profiling, and forced to disappear.

A portion of the pupils who vanished subsequently made their way back home, but fifty of them remained unaccounted for. The commission was formed by former Chief Justice Athar Minallah of the IHC. According to the order, “the additional attorney general admitted that there were still some missing students.”

The judgement stated that neither the temporary prime minister nor the interior minister, who are both from Balochistan, had taken any meaningful action on the issue.

“Even after 21 hearings, the absence of positive results is an insult to the constitution of Pakistan,” the ruling stated.

The order stated, “There is no other option except to call the prime minister and the ministers of defence and interior to tell the court, why the matter is not being given due importance.”

The statement went on, “Hopefully the prime minister, ministers, and secretaries will appear in court with substantial results and inform it that missing students have reached their homes.”

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