ISLAMABAD – A conspiracy has been revealed whereby Foreign agenciesillegally apprehend missing people and pin the blame on Inter-ServicesIntelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI), revealed the ChairmanNAB and Head of missing persons commission Javed Iqbal.
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.
He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) itself has nointerest in their missing persons. Despite being in the government, andIshrat-ul-Ibad’s appointment as the Sindh governor, the party lacked thesincerity, seriousness and interest of recovering their own missingworkers, he added.
MQM-P workers have been missing for the last 20 years, but former governorIbad distributed a plot and a job to the family of a missing worker andclosed the case, the NAB chief lamented. According to the NAB chairman,there are 14 cases of missing persons belonging to the party in thecommission, at present and the number of missing workers is crossing adangerous number.
The UN working group has also expressed serious concerns regarding theissue. The commission has 29 cases of MQM’s missing workers under review,from 1992 to 1995.