Missing students case: IHC summons ­PM Kakar again

The Islamabad High Court have summoned caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar for the third time in a case pertaining to the missing Baloch students.

After the order, the hearing of the case was adjourned till February 28.

“Caretaker prime minister should not consider coming to court as an insult,” Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, who is heading the bench, remarked in today’s hearing.

The caretaker prime minister should not go to Karachi for the next hearing, but appear before the court, the IHC judge added.

“No one is above the law here,” the judge said, stating that the premier was summoned because he was “accountable”.

In the previous hearing, the assistant attorney general asked the court to adjourn the proceedings as the attorney general was unavailable. However, the request was rejected.

Justice Kayani remarked that the death penalty should be awarded to those involved in enforced disappearances.

“People involved [enforced disappearance] should be given the death penalty twice,” remarked Justice Kayani.

He then asked the caretaker PM to appear in person on Monday at 10am to explain why a case should not be registered against him.

This is the second time that PM Kakar has been summoned by IHC. He was last summoned on November 29 of last year to personally appear before it in the case.

However, he did not appear as he was not in the country.