PHC disposes of 5 cases as oversight board declares missing persons black

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday disposed of five missing persons cases after the oversight board declared them black.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain disposed of the cases of five missing persons. They had been shifted to internment centres in Lakki Marwat and Ghallanai in Mohmand Agency and now declared black by the oversight boards.
The black detainees included Fazal Rabi, Nisar Ilyas Jamil, Umar Ayaz, Sharifullah and Zainul Abidin. The bench also disposed of petition of another missing person, Sher Haseenullah, detained at internment centre in Lakki Marwat after the board declared him grey.
The additional advocate general, Qaiser Ali Shah, and in-charge internment centre in Lakki Marwat, Sabz Ali Khan, and legal advisor of Fata Secretariat, Iqbal Durrani, appeared in the cases.
In one case, the bench sought medical report of an internee Murad Ali shifted to internment centre in Ghallanai after the lawyer Taimur Haider Shah informed the bench that he was in critical condition as he had developed sever TB and gangrene (black spots on body) at the internment centre.
The bench also directed the Home and Tribal Affairs Department to submit complete list of detainees of internment centre in Lakki Marwat after in-charge of internment centre denied presence of two detainees in the centre. Their presence was earlier shown in the reports of the commissioners concerned, who are chairmen of the oversight boards.
The court also sought replies from ministries of defence and interior in seven other missing persons cases, directing them to submit the replies from the agencies concerned. In one of the cases, Gul Sanga, mother of the two missing brothers Shaukat Ali and Sardar Ali, a resident of Lundkhwar area in Mardan district, claimed that they were picked up by the station house officer of Lundkhwar police station and agencies personnel from home on August 2010 and their whereabouts were still unknown.