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Top ISI official ordered to appear in `forced disappearance` case
Major Tariq, reportedly serving with the ISI, had allegedly detained the two men in the intelligence agency`s office.
Justice Anwarul Haq Qureshi of Islamabad High Court
ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen
Shuja Pasha to ensure the presence of an army officer
identified only as Major Tariq before him at the next hearing
on March 14 in connection with a "missing persons" case.
The order was issued in connection with the case of two
doctors - Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Wahid - who were reportedly
detained due to their alleged association with a banned group.
Relatives of the doctors filed a petition in the High
Court in which they said the two men went missing in Rahim Yar
Khan area of Punjab in August last year.
Major Tariq, reportedly serving with the ISI, had allegedly detained the two men in the intelligence agency`s office at Sector G-9 in Islamabad, the petition said.
The Supreme Court and the Peshawar High Court are currently hearing cases related to "missing persons" - an euphemism for persons detained without charge or arrested without due process by intelligence and security agencies.
Rights groups like Human Rights Watch have said that intelligence agencies are responsible for these detentions, particularly in Balochistan province.
In a recent case, the Supreme Court forced the ISI and Military Intelligence to produce seven men who were detained since 2010.
An unnamed security official told state-run APP news agency that the men were detained because there was evidence that they were linked to several high-profile terrorist attacks. PTI