State must deal differently with those taken up arms: PM

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar appeared in the Islamabad High Court after being summoned in the missing Baloch students case.

The Islamabad High Court has summoned Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar. Islamabad High Court Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani Baloch is hearing the case related to the recovery of missing students.

Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan came to the rostrum and told the court that Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was present in the court.’

Mansoor Usman Awan stated that efforts were made to recover the missing Baloch students as 11 more missing students had been recovered, Nine persons are in the custody of CTD while four are still untraceable.

The Attorney General said that two people are in Afghanistan, on which Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said that those who followed the legal process have left the mandate of this court. If there are cases against them, they will see the relevant courts, he observed.

Justice Mohsin Kayani said that we have conducted many hearings in two years. Baloch students have been picked up. Some people are terrorists, some have joined TTP, while some people have reached their homes. State institutions have to work as they are accountable to law.

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said that we are all working under the Constitution and law. I have appeared on the summons of the court. I belong to Balochistan, we are facing an armed struggle that is to create a new state.

He said that it is not the case that suicide bombers are a source of good name. Paramilitary forces and counter-terrorism agencies are blamed for missing persons, the prime minister said.