The Lahore High Court (LHC) Tuesday summoned the record of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) by October 25 regarding arrival of a Turkish plane allegedly to take out former vice president of Pak-Turk Schools Mesut Kacmaz and his family from Pakistan.
The court also restrained the federal government from deporting the Turkish teachers mentioned in the list presented by the petitioner's counsel without prior permission of the court. The court also directed the CCPO Lahore to depute police at the residences of the Turkish nationals for their protection. Earlier, a law officer told the court that as per available record the Turkish family in question had not been deported.
Rejecting the government's claim, the petitioner's counsel Asma Jahangir told the court that the Turkish family had been taken out of Pakistan on a special plane sent by Turkey government. She said the family was deported forcibly and handed over to Turkish police which entered the soil of Pakistan.
Presenting a list of other Turkish educationists, the counsel told the court that they had also applied for asylum under the protection of UNCHR but they had serious apprehensions about their deportation like their colleague. The petitioner stated that the government through the attorney general had given undertaken before the court last year that the Turkish employees of the Pak-Turk School would not be deported till November 24, 2017. A petition was moved before the LHC by a Turkish national Orhan Uygun challenging deportation of his colleague Kacmaz along with his family members.