[DAWN] Punjab police investigating the whereabouts of Khawar Mehmood have pointed finger at the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for the enforced disappearance.A report submitted to the Supreme Court by District Police Officer of Bahawalnagar, Athar Ismail, said Khawar's uncle Abdul Hayee, who was detained by the ISI for five days, had also accused it of picking up his nephew.
The Additional Advocate General of Punjab, Mustafa Ramday, who read out the report before a three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, said a thorough investigation and evidence collected suggested that Khawar was perhaps in the custody of intelligence agencies.
The bench had taken up an application of Khalid Mehmood, father of 21-yeay-old Khawar who was taken away by intelligence agencies on June 26 last year from a distribution company in Fortabbas area of Bahawalnagar district.
Saadia Parveen, who married Khawar only six months ago, has approached Amna Masood Janjua of the Defence of Human Rights for help.
During the hearing, Additional Attorney General Tariq Khokhar requested the defence ministry and intelligence agencies to investigate the matter afresh in the light of the report submitted by the Punjab police.
The report said officials of the ISI and the Military Intelligence (MI) had denied that Khawar was in their custody.
Mustafa Ramday informed the court that the inspector general of police had also been requested to approach the ministries of defence and interior for taking up the matter with the MI and ISI high-ups.
Khawar's father admitted that his elder son, Amir Mehmood, was an activist of Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
. He was tossed in the slammer
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by intelligence agencies, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Later the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court acquitted him and since then he, along with his wife, has been missing.
A year after Amir's release, the intelligence agencies started chasing Khawar to trace his elder brother Amir.