ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (retd)Javed Iqbal has revealed an organised campaign to malign Pakistaniintelligence Agencies.

He said on Monday that foreign agencies illegally apprehend people and pinthe blame on Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence(MI).

Briefing a meeting of National Assembly’s Standing Committee for HumanRights, headed by Zahra Daud Fatima, Iqbal, who is also the head of acommittee formed to probe missing persons, said that 70 per cent of themissing persons are found to be ‘pro-military.

He said that often the kidnapped refrain from sharing details of theincident out of fear. A terrorist’s family should not be labelled aterrorist, he argued, adding that “with the state rests the responsibilityof the family of the missing persons.”

The NAB chief said that statistics shared for the missing persons inBalochistan are contradictory to reality. “There have been several militantgroups present in the province and many ‘missing persons’ have gone alongwith them,” he said. Former CM Balochistan Aslam Raisani and NasrullahBaloch had been tasked to provide with the list but to no avail, the NABchief complained.