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Summary Supreme Court orders attorney general to personally appear before the bench tomorrow.
The Supreme Court resumed hearing of a petition on the law and order situation in Balochistan on Monday.A three-judge bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, heard the case at Supreme Court Quetta registry.During the hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar inquired over the killings of Shia Muslims in the province. He ordered to submit a list of victims of targeted killings in the province over the past six months.The chief justice said that police officials were violating court’s orders and the situation had deteriorated to the extent that a district judge was assassinated along with his security guard.He lamented that seven people of Hazara community were killed in one day, adding that federal government was aware of the entire situation. He said the matters of the province were not run under the constitution.
