By Our correspondent
Justice Asad Munir of the Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Bench, Thursday admitted a petition of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan for regular hearing from November 11.
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan had filed an application before the court for early hearing of his case as it involves the question regarding his freedom of movement.
In another case, the LHC bench directed the GHQ judge advocate general (JAG) and the Ministry of Defence to submit their replies in the case of Nadeem Shah, a lawyer, missing since April 13, 2009. He is in the custody of the army and being interrogated, along with a serving lieutenant colonel, under the Secret Act.
Ministry of Defence Director (legal) Lieutenant Colonel Sarfaraz told the court that the meeting between Nadeem Shah and his family members has been arranged. The court, however, sought replies from respondents regarding the question of illegal custody of Nadeem Shah.
Nadeem Shah’s family members came to know about his whereabouts when the attorney general of Pakistan told the Supreme Court in May about his arrest by army officials.
The wife of Advocate Nadeem Shah had prayed to the court to ask the GHQ and DAG to inform about the present status of Nadeem and explain the legality of his detention.
Making the Ministry of Defence secretary and the GHQ judge advocate general as respondents, the petitioner, through her lawyer Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, maintained that her husband went missing on April 13 and the attorney general of Pakistan submitted before the Supreme Court that he was in the custody of army and being interrogated under the Secret Act.
She had prayed to the court to get her husband released from the illegal custody and if there was any charge against him he should be tried accordingly.