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Intelligence Agencies yet to present detainees in Supreme Court

ISLAMABAD: The advocate for intelligence agencies informed the Supreme Court’s (SC) associate that the detainees held at Parachinar internment center will not show up in the court today as the detainees are being transported to Islamabad through road, and the weather does not allow to fly them in.

The Supreme Court today, ordered advocate of intelligence agencies to present the missing detainees from Adiala Jai By 3:00 pm today.

"If the prime minister can be summoned then anyone can be," Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry told the lawyer of intel agencies.

The counsel for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) informed the Court on 30th January that four of the eleven prisoners of Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, who were picked up by intelligence agents to investigate their role in October 2009 attacks on the GHQ and ISI’s Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi were now dead and that the rest of the prisoners cannot be brought forward to the court.

The apex court three-member bench, includes Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, ordered the agencies’ advocate, Raja Muhammad Irshad, to file a reply explaining the circumstances under which the four prisoners had died and produce the remaining seven prisoners before the court, and still await the detainee's appearance in their court.