LAHORE: Senate’s Functional Committee for Human Rights Chairperson Nasreen Jalil, on Monday, blamed law enforcement agencies for missing persons.
She accused the law enforcement agencies of abducting and torturing people.
“They are not even presented in courts,” she said.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar also showed his concerns over the issue of missing persons.
“The people involved in abductions are not punished despite the evidence against them,” he alleged.
The Senator also said that Parliament, Supreme Court and other institutions have failed to settle this issue.
Criticizing the officials of Inquiry Commission for Missing Persons for not attending the session, Babar said that the commission should have informed the Senate earlier about their absence so the meeting could have been rescheduled.
However, officials of the interior ministry, Additional Secretary of the Foreign Office and National Commission on Human Rights Chairman Justice (r) Ali Nawaz Chohan attended the session.
Some Senators showed concern in a ‘dramatic fashion’ over the alleged disappearance of people from NA 120 constituency during polls. Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Nisar Muhammad claimed that people were abducted to fulfill particular political purposes.
The Senate committee urged the government to make Justice Mansor Kamal’s report on missing persons public, along with the report compiled by United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in 2012.
The Senators also demanded that the government must take the committee’s draft containing recommendations regarding missing persons into consideration.
