PHC orders Home Deptt to submit oversight board report

PESHAWAR: Giving a last chance to secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed it to submit oversight board reports about the missing persons within 20 days.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Muhammad Daud Khan gave 20 more days to the Home and Tribal Affairs Department for submission of oversight board reports about 14 missing persons, who have been shifted to the internment centre in Kohat. The directives were issued on the request of Additional Advocate General (AAG) Qaiser Ali Shah.
During hearing of the cases, the AAG informed the bench that he had made correspondence with the Home and Tribal Affairs Department in the detainees cases, but no reply was submitted. However, he requested the bench to give some more time for submission of replies in these cases.
The bench also put on notice the ministries of Defence and Interior to submit replies on behalf of the secret agencies in a missing person case from Dera Ismail Khan.The bench disposed of a missing person case after receiving an oversight board report in which it had declared the missing person, Umar Habib, a hardcore militant.