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The Supreme Court on Friday directed the counsel for the intelligence agencies to let the relatives of the 11 prisoners meet them, Dunya News reported on Friday. Later, the hearing was adjourned till first week of January 2011.On Thursday, counsel for country's two sensitive agencies apprised the apex court that eleven missing prisoners of Adiala Jail had been arrested along with a number of terrorists from their hideouts in Army operational areas owing to allegations of masterminding terrorist activities in the country including attack on GHQ at Pindi. Raja Muhammad Irshad, counsel for Federation, Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau, Military Intelligence, told a three-member bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday that after Court's direction a massive operation was launched and more than 20 terrorists including these eleven people had been arrested in the operational areas. He said they were in safe and secure hands and would be charged under Army Act. He assured the court that their trial would be held in General Field Court Martial in accordance with law.
