The Chief Justice said the intelligence agencies are not above the law.
ISLAMABAD:?While hearing the case of the 11 missing prisoners, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary said no one – including the intelligence agencies – is above the law.
During the proceedings, the Attorney General (AG) submitted the report of the intelligence agencies regarding the missing men to the court.
The Chief Justice took exception of the fact that the report was neither signed by Director General (DG) Intelligence Bureau nor DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
To this, the Attorney General raised a procedural objection that since the intelligence agencies function under the Defence Ministry, a notice should be given to the defence secretary. The objection was later withdrawn by the Attorney General.
Justice Ramday at this point remarked that the AG was trying to pit two institutions of the state, the intelligence agencies and the court, against each other
The hearing of the case has been adjourned till December 13.
The 11 men, who disappeared from the jail in Rawalpindi, were acquitted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) for want of evidence. They had been picked up for their suspected involvement in terrorist acts, including the GHQ attack and the assassination attempt on former president Pervez Musharraf.
The relatives of the 11 missing men claim that they were picked up from the premises of the Adiyala Jail by intelligence agencies, but the intelligence agencies have been denying this.
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