The Lahore High Court (LHC) directed the investigation officer to trace out the caller and ensure him to join the investigation when Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) informed the court that the missing doctor of Jinnah Hospital, Ali Abdullah, is not in its custody.
The court while adjourning the proceedings to August 19 held that despite the rule of democratic government, agencies were bothering innocent citizens. If the government was influential, why all the agencies were not in its control, the court observed.
Lieutenant Colonel Sarfaraz Khan, director legal ministry of defence, told the court that "Director General ISI has now informed that missing Doctor Ali Abdullah s/o Dr Sarafaz Ahmed is "not held" in the custody of their department. The court was holding proceedings in a petition of Dr Sarfaraz Ahmed seeking recovery of his son from the alleged detention of secret agencies.
Counsel for the petitioner Advocate Asad Manzoor Butt submitted before the court that one official of the secret agencies namely Abdul Mannan was repeatedly phoning the petitioner and threatening them. He also provided phone numbers to the police to trace out the caller but in vain. On court's query, he said they were collecting data of telephone calls of two numbers provided by the petitioner.
In previous hearings, defence ministry had informed the court that Military Intelligence had no knowledge about the whereabouts of the missing doctor. The petitioner had submitted in his petition that his son Dr Ali Abdullah worked in Jinnah Hospital and was missing for many days. He alleged that personnel of secret agencies abducted him when he was on his way to home from hospital.