A court in Pakistan has strongly denounced the running of illegal detention centres by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and other intelligence and law-enforcing agencies of the country.
While hearing cases of 280 missing persons Thursday, Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan of the Peshawar High Court observed that the courts in the country would no longer tolerate running of such centres, The News International reported. "It has come into my notice that there are secret detention centres in the no-go areas of the provincial metropolis but none of the law-enforcing agencies is taking action in this regard," the chief justice was quoted as saying.
A division bench, comprising Justice Khan and Justice Asadullah Khan Chamkani, reissued a notice to Pakistan's defence ministry, justice and law division and judge advocate general branch of the Pakistan Army, seeking explanation of the legality of the secret detention centres being run by the ISI, the Military Intelligence and other agencies.