Court orders recovery of PTI social media activist

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday directed the additional advocate general to approach the inspector general of police to make efforts for the recovery of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social media activist Kamran Khan, who went missing a few days back.

A bench comprising Justice SM Attique Shah heard the writ petition filed by the wife of Kamran Khan, who went missing on April 30. His wife told the bench that she had got a case registered with the East Cantt Police Station after her husband did not return home. She said that CCTV footage of her husband’s alleged kidnapping was also available. Justice SM Attique Shah directed the additional advocate general to take up the matter with the inspector general of the police. He said that he had talked to the SHO concerned. The court directed the additional advocate general that besides the SHO, discuss the matter with the inspector general of the police.

Talking to reporters after the court hearing, PTI leader Sher Ali Arbab said that Kamran Khan had been missing for the last four days. Thanking the PHC for taking up the petition, he said that picking up citizens would not solve any problem so this should be stopped.