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Adiala prisoners case hearing adjourned till April 9

Khyber Pakthunkhwa Chief Secretary on Friday submitted to the Supreme Court of Pakistan report pertaining to health condition of seven Adiala Jail prisoners.
The court was told that three of the prisoners have serious health problems ranging from hepatitis to cancer while remaining four were in stable condition.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chadury ordered before adjourning the hearing till April 9, that the three prisoners be provided medical facilities while remaining four be kept at detention center nearest to Peshawar.
During the course of hearing, the CJ said that law enforcers should carry out activities within constitutional parameters. He said the 11 Adiala jail prisoners were healthy before they were held. He remarked that four of the detainees were killed and the court could not turn blind eye.
Raja Arshad Kayani, counsel for agencies said that security officials were beheaded in northwestern tribal region and he could show a video to the court about operational areas.
He said that propaganda against the ISI was at work.
In the case hearing on March 1, The Supreme Court categorically said that spy agencies were not above the law.

It observed the Parliament could be approached if there existed no law to deal with the missing persons case.

Raja Irshad, counsel for Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence said that the existing Parliament did not represent the will of the people.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry told him that the incumbent Parliament represented the will of the people and had passed the 20th Constitutional Amendment to resolve issues.

"If you take them (Parliamentarians) into confidence, they will facilitate you as well," the CJP remarked.
The SC expressed immense dismay over the failure of the counsel for the ISI and the MI to justify arrest of 11 persons outside Adiala jail Rawalpindi on 29th May 2010.

In response to a constitutional petition from the relatives of 11 persons, the two spy agencies produced seven persons before the court on February 13, 2012 whereas bodies of four were received by their relatives in Peshawar.

A three-member bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan has been hearing the petition filed by Ms Rohifa, the mother of three out of the seven prisoners.
Rohifa received the body of one of her sons on January 26, 2012.

She breathed her last on February 14 after meeting her two surviving sons in the apex court's premises on February 13.

During the hearing, the Chief Justice observed that the replies of counsel for the ISI and the MI Raja Irshad were unsatisfactory, observing that the replies submitted to the bench did not identify the law under which civilians were picked up by the agencies and kept in detention for more than a year.