ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Core Committee appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Qazi Faez Isa to take suo motu notice of the enforced disappearances PTI’s loyalists and other missing persons in the country and ensure their immediate recovery.
PTI Core committee held detained discussion on the case of enforced disappearances of PTI workers, officials, ticket holders and their families in its meeting on Monday.
During the meeting, the participations pleaded that article 10-A of the Constitution gives every citizen the fundamental right to a fair trial, because there is absolutely no space for enforced disappearance of citizens or extra-judicial measures against citizens in a state, where the constitution and law are supreme.
PTI core committee said that at present, the constitution and laws are completely suspended in Pakistan and the law of the jungle is in force in the country, adding that enforced disappearances and extra-judicial tactics are being used by the state machinery to crush the PTI.
They said that enforced disappearance or illegal detention of PTI workers and leaders has become a routine business, as the courts completely failed in recovering PTI forcibly disappeared workers and leaders and stopping the extra-judicial actions of the state machinery against PTI’s loyalists.
The participants stated that after Zahoor Mashwani and Sadaqat Abbasi, now Usman Dar has been disappeared and no one know about his whereabouts despite lapse of several days.
They went on to say that PTI South Punjab President Senator Aun Abbas Buppi was only brought before the public after he made the announcement of quitting the PTI. The PTI Core committee recalled that Imran Riaz, the famous journalist of the country, is still missing despite several court hearings, adding that the court and the administration have failed to recover him.
They appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to immediately take immediate notice of this worst situation for supremacy of the fundamental human and constitutional rights and the rule of law in the country.
The participants of the meeting urged CJP to take suo motu notice of the issue of enforced disappearance of PTI workers and citizens together and the Supreme Court itself should look into the matter.
PTI Core Committee said that the CJP should bring the state machinery within the ambit of the constitution and law, where are busy in promoting law of jangle in the country through barbaric tactics and unlawful acts.
