Friday, February 10, 2012

Produce detainees come hell or high water: CJ orders ISI, MI


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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday ordered the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) to produce seven detainees picked up the agencies outside the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi, today at till 3pm.
“Bring the detainees in court we are here till evening 7pm,” the CJ ordered Raja Irshad Kayani, counsel for the ISI and the MI. He said the agencies would have to produce them even in a helicopter.
“If prime minister could come here, then everybody could be brought here” Justice Chaudhry remarked.
He said that the agencies have taken them into custody and now they were responsible to produce them.
It is to mention here that, eleven prisoners, convicted for attacking the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi and the ISI’s Hamza Camp, had gone missing from the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi and later the agencies conceded that the missing persons were in their custody. Four of the detainees were later found dead.