ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah equated enforced disappearances with treason on Friday.
The remark came during the hearing of missing journalist Mudassar Naro’s case at the IHC.
Naro, a journalist from Lahore, went missing in August 2018.
At the outset of the hearing, the additional attorney-general and judicial assistant appeared before the court.
“Enforced disappearances are treason. It is a case of treason,” Justice Minallah remarked.
He said that enforced disappearances are not acceptable in a country that follows the Constitution.
He asked if the inability to recover Mudassar Naro was the failure of state agencies, adding that the federal and provincial governments should have looked into this matter.
“Can anyone be disappeared without their [federal and provincial governments] will? No,” the judge declared.
“People going missing is the incompetence of the state. The executive is responsible if the state agencies are not in control. Why don’t we declare the executive responsible for it.”
The judge went on to say that sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act are applied in the enforced disappearance cases.
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