Missing persons: Commission likely to submit report to PM
Recommends criminal cases against law enforcement agencies including police and FC.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Commission headed by Justice (r) Javed Iqbal has prepared a report about the missing persons.
The report says that the commission collected information about 415 out of 1054 missing persons. The report would be submitted to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the end of this month.
The commission has termed the issue of missing persons a human tragedy.
According to the report, the commission recovered and handed over missing persons to their families including 64 from Balochistan, 145 from Punjab, 24 from Sindh and 164 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Meanwhile, the commission also worked to recover missing persons including 15 belonging to FATA, 10 to Kashmir and 23 residents of the federal capital.
The commissions also revealed recovering 21 dead bodies of missing persons from Balochistan while the commission also tried to contact families of 13 of them.
The report says that the reasons behind these disappearances were militancy, tribal rivalries, kidnapping for ransom and old enmities.
Most of the missing persons were reportedly kidnapped with the involvement of police officials in plain clothes and were detained in basements.
The commission has directed the interior and defence ministries to register criminal cases against officials of intelligence agencies, police and FC.
