Web Desk (LTN NEWS): PM Shehbaz went to court to tell the judge what the government was doing to find the missing people. At a hearing in IHC on Friday, PM Shehbaz Sharif said he was sure that missing people would be found and reunited with their families.
“Missing people will be found and reunited with their families,” PM Shehbaz said.
Before the hearing, other cases were taken off the list of cases to be heard. The notice from the court said that only the case about the missing people will be heard.
As PM Shehbaz took the podium, IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah told him, “We have troubled you because this is a big issue that has been in this court for months.”
Justice Minallah was sad that the state’s response did not match up with what it should have done.
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Chief justice seemed to be talking about retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf when he said, “A president ran the country for nine years. He wrote proudly in his book that he sold his people to other countries. This makes it seem like maybe this was the policy of the state.”
“If we’re talking about the Constitution, we can’t have a state inside a state,” he said.
He said that the court is a place to talk about the Constitution, not a place to do investigations.
Justice Minallah said that the issue had been sent to the federal cabinet and a committee had been set up, but “this matter is not just about setting up a committee,” he said.
He told PM Shehbaz, “This court thought it was important to tell you what the real problem is.”
The chief justice said that hearings were held by the commission on missing people, and “what came out was very painful.”
“It is the state’s job to make sure that their suffering is taken care of,” he said.
Justice Minallah said that people were found in detention centers, “but nothing was done.”
“This impression affects our national security,” he said, adding, “This problem needs to be fixed by the political leadership.”
Justice Minallah said that making people disappear is the worst kind of torture.
The Chief justice said the court had no choice but to talk to the government. “But what should we do when the government tells us they don’t know who took these people?”
