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Thursday, July 12, 2012
SC seeks details of bodies recovered in Balochsitan* CJP remarks that nobody knows about activities of FC in province
* Asks FC lawyer to either produce all missing persons or summon all commandants
By Mohammad Zafar
QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has directed the Balochistan home secretary to produce details of the bodies recovered so far in the province.
The Supreme Court at its Quetta registry heard a petition on the law and order situation and human rights violations in Balochistan.
A three-judge bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, heard the petition filed by the Balochistan Bar Association on the law and order situation in Balochistan. During the hearing, the chief justice said that the court convened and issued directives but none of those orders were implemented. “The bodies are being recovered. Did you investigate who are killing and dumping the bodies?” the chief justices asked.
He said the court should be informed how many bodies had been recovered in the A and B areas of Balochistan. “Don’t insult the bodies as we too have to die. Not a single target killer is arrested,” he said, adding that if strict action was not taken against the people responsible, result would not come.
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain remarks that the killers won’t be arrested if the authorities concerned keep sitting at home.
Advocate Hadi Shakeel told the bench that after the killing of Akbar Bugti, nobody could go to the Dera Bugti. The Dera Bugti deputy commissioner informed the court that they could go in Dera Bugti, but with security squads. The chief justice asked the provincial chief secretary about the situation in Dera Bugti. “Why it is a no-go area for the local people? It is their fundamental right to go there,” the chief justice said. The home secretary said before the court that Dera Bugti was not a no-go area. “I have been there thrice,” he said.
Advocate Shakeel said they had been unable to reach Dera Bugti to register a case against the killing of Akbar Bugti.
“Is Dera Bugti a Frontier Corps (FC)-controlled area. Show the orders,” the chief justice asked.
Shakeel said that at least 100,000 homeless people of Bugti tribe had migrated to different areas of Pakistan. The home secretary said that they were working to facilitate the local. “In four districts of Punjab, Bugti tribe’s people are living currently, and they want to live in Dera Bugti again,” he said, adding that there was a large number of landmines in Dera Bugti.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk