IHC seeks update from AGP on Baloch students case

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday instructed the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) to contact the commission’s head and members in a case of alleged harassment of Baloch students.

Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the case, filed by the Baloch students regarding the matter. The court expressed displeasure with the Ministry of Human Rights and asked whether they approached the victim students and whether there was anything important than the students of a whole province, who had filed the complaint, the chief justice said.

The court said that the students had adopted the stance that they would disappear if they visit their areas. Therefore the court had set up a commission comprising members from all political parties after deliberations.

Justice Minallah questioned whether any party had taken the issue seriously. The Senate chairman belonged to the same province, and this court had appointed him as head of the commission, and how many meetings he had held on the matter, he asked. After this, further hearing was adjourned with the above instructions.