KARACHI, March 12: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the deputy attorney-general to call a report from the authorities concerned regarding confinement of missing persons who have been detained in internment centres of security agencies.

Headed by SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam, the division bench was hearing the petition of Hakim Khan seeking whereabouts of his missing brother Muhammad Zaman who according to him had been picked up by police officials on Nov 16, 2011, from Tanveer Colony, Orangi Town.

Investigation officer Sikander Zulfiqar filed a detailed report submitting that serious efforts had been made to collect information from civil and military authority in Khyber Pakhunkhwa (KPK) and it was learnt that Muhammad Zaman was in a internment centre of security agencies in South Waziristan, KPK. He also submitted that he had written letters to the law enforcing agencies concerned but in vain.

The court noted that in many cases it was reported by the complainants that according to their personal and credible information, missing persons were kept by the security agencies in the interment centre situated beyond the territorial limits of this court and even teams of the law enforcing agencies from this province were not accorded and well received by the law enforcing agencies in other provinces.

The court ruled that copy order be placed before member of Federal Review Board as to bring to its notice of families of missing person as many such families had no resources to approach Peshawar High Court to redress their grievance. PPI