Supreme Court observations: FC officials involved in some missing persons' cases

While hearing a missing person's case the Supreme Court expressed its displeasure over the delay in the appointment of the head of the commission probing missing persons' cases. A three-member bench, headed by Justice Javed Iqbal was hearing the human right case 965/2005 on the complaint of Saqlain Mehdi.
The court had directed the government to appoint the head of the commission in its previous hearing, but orders were not complied with. Justice Javed Iqbal observed that heirs of missing persons were approaching the superior courts due to the negligence of the government.
The bench also observed that FC officials were involved in some missing persons' cases but the government had not taken any action against them. During the course of hearing, Additional Attorney General K K Agha informed the bench that according to the spy agency's report, two missing persons namely Faisal Faraz and Masood Janjua had links with al Qaeda.
He said that Masood Janjua and Faisal Faraz had given the two laptops to al Qaeda members and installed a chip with these laptops; therefore the terrorist organisation had Masood Janjua and Faisal Faraz as their members. He also cited a local journalist's Urdu column, which stated that Masood Janjua had been killed.
However, the wife of Janjua, Amna Masood rejected the spy agency report and told the bench that her husband was alive, adding that he had been in the custody of spy agencies at Rawalpindi. The court told her that if she was certain about her husband's presence in Rawalpindi then the court might send a bailiff for his recovery.
On the occasion, SC Bar Association President Asma Jahangir told the court that the commission's report had not been made public, though it was the right of the people to have access to information under the Constitution of Pakistan. The court adjourned hearing for two weeks.