Karachi
May 20, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday took exception to the failure of the federal interior secretary to file reports on the presence of missing persons in internment centres of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and his non-appearance before the court, and issued a non-bailable warrant against him through the IG police Islamabad.
Hearing petitions against enforced disappearances, a division bench of the SHC headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha observed that Federal Interior Secretary Yousuf Nasim Khokar had been directed to file reports from internment centres in KP along with the names of detainees there but the court order was not obeyed.
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The Sindh High Court has issued show-cause notices to the federal secretary of ministry of interior and the director general of Federal Investigation Agency for flouting SHC directives in a petition of a missing person. Wikimedia Commons/File
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has issued show-cause notices to the federal secretary of ministry of interior and the director general of Federal Investigation Agency for flouting SHC directives in a petition of a missing person.
The two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha said that the secretary and the DG FIA were directed twice to collect and produce reports from the interment centres and submit travel history of the missing person, but they violated both orders and ordered them to appear on May 27.
SHC warns of action against interior secretary for repeatedly violating orders
Karachi
May 7, 2021
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday took exception to non-filing of reports about the presence of missing persons in the internment centres of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) by the federal ministry of interior and issued a show-cause notice to the interior secretary for not complying with the court orders.
Hearing a petition against the enforced disappearance of a citizen, an SHC’s division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha observed that the interior secretary was directed to file reports from the internment centres in KP along with the name of detainees there but the order of the court was not obeyed.
Karachi
April 29, 2021
The Sindh High Court has rejected the reply of the interior ministry’s secretary to a show-cause notice over failure to file reports about the presence of missing persons at internment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and directed the secretary to appear in person along with a complete list of people being detained at those centres.
Hearing petitions against the enforced disappearances of citizens from different areas of Karachi, a division bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha, noted that the interior secretary did not appear despite the specific orders of the court to file a list of detainees held at the internment centres so that the presence of missing persons could be verified.
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