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Protests against enforced disappearances contnued throughout the year.
appear he should be arrested and produced in chains, if needed. The CJ said if
the prime minister did not think restoration of order and implementation of the
constitution was his responsibility, the constitution would take its course, and
hinted at the emergency option.
At subsequent hearings too the SC expressed its sense of frustration and
embarrassment as it did not have answers on the issue of disappearances. The
CJ said he was dismayed at the authorities’ failure to recover the “missing
persons”. Dead bodies started appearing in Quetta as soon as the judges landed
there and the disappearance of every third person was blamed on the Frontier
Corps.
Towards the end of September the SC lost hope of a breakthrough. “After
six months of efforts by the court the result is zero”, the CJ said. The court
ordered the federal and Balochistan governments to admit in writing that they
had miserably failed to establish the writ of law in Balochistan.
Eventually the court dealt with disappearances within the case on law and
order and passed an order in the latter case.
Peshawar High Court
The high courts also remained seized of the issues raised by involuntary
disappearances, especially the Peshawar High Court (PHC). The latter court
heard such cases throughout the year because disappearances had become
quite common in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Apparently losing patience at the dilatory tactics used by government
officials and what the court thought amounted to defending the intelligence
and security agencies, the PHC division bench, headed by Chief Justice Dost
Mohammed Khan, summoned the federal defence secretary, the human rights
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State of Human Rights in 2012