ISLAMABAD - Additional Attorney General for Pakistan on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that Masood Janjua along with Faisal Faraz had been killed in South Waziristan Agency.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh was hearing the Masood Janjua missing person case. Additional Attorney General Tariq Khokhar said according to a statement of Maj-Gen (retd) Nusrat Naeem, former deputy DG ISI, which he gave on June 30, 2011 one Pakistani named Tariq, who was working with US as an agent of CIA had been killed eight years ago in South Waziristan.
He said that according to the Naeem’s statement, Tariq had arranged a meeting with Al-Qaeda leader Sheikh Saad Al Misri, who was on the hit list of CIA. He said that through Masood Janjua and Faisal Faraz a laptop in which satellite chip was fixed delivered to the Al-Qaeda leader. When the Al-Qaeda came to know about the chip they killed Janjua and Faisal Faraz.
However, Amina Janjua, the wife of Masood Janjua, who is also a chairperson of Defence of Human Rights (DHR), rejected Maj-Gen (retired) Nusrat Naeem’s statement. She said before the Inquiry Commission on Enforced Disappeared Persons had put three questions to the retired general but he answered none of them.
She said that General Nusrat gave a false name to the Commission and mentioned her husband as doctor, while he was not a doctor.
Amna said that the court should not ignore the statement of Dr. Imran Munir, given to the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) and the hand-written notes, as he himself remained in the agencies custody, but now in Sri Lanka. According to Imran’s 5th December 2009 statement, he saw Janjua in the custody of ISI’s Brig Mansoor Saeed Sheikh during the period from July 28, 2006 and second week of March 2007 in a cell near Zakria Masjid, Rawalpindi.
The court in an order on July 23, 2013 had directed the SP Potohar Town Haroon Joya that in the light of Dr. Imran Munir’s statement, initiate legal proceedings against army officers, including an ISI brigadier Mansoor.
The chairperson DHR told that some retired army officers including Col Habibullah, and Col Jahangir Akhtar had told her father-in-law that her husband was alive.
The court asked Amna Masood to provide the list of her witnesses and adjourned the hearing till tomorrow.
SC CANCELS PLEA AGAINST
MUSH BAIL
Former President Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday when the Supreme Court dismissed an application filed for cancellation of his post-arrest bail granted by Islamabad High Court (IHC) in judges’ detention case.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Gulzar Ahmed dismissed the application for non-pursuing the matter by the petitioner.
The same bench on an application to transfer Akbar Bugti murder case from Quetta to Islamabad directed Musharraf’s counsel Muhammad Ilyas Siddiqui to come prepared on the next date and adjourned the hearing for one week.
An anti-terrorism court in Quetta has issued the production order of the former President in Akbar Bugti murder case before the court on 30th September in any case.
Twice the apex court benches, first by a bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and second time Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk had refused to hear Advocate Aslam Ghuman’s application against post-arrest bail granted to ex-military dictator Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf by Islamabad High Court (IHC) in the case of detaining judges of superior judiciary after emergency was promulgated on November 3, 2007.
Ghuman had challenged the June 11, 2013 judgement of IHC allowing post-arrest bail to Musharraf and deleting terrorism charges in the case. The court had ruled that there was no record to determine the role of Musharraf in detaining over 60 judges after November 3, 2007 emergency.
The appellant has asserted that the IHC order was illegal, unjust arbitrary which has resulted in grave miscarriage of justice and high court had not followed the dictums of Supreme Court in its true prospective. Ghumman on August 11, 2009 lodged an FIR with Islamabad police against Pervez Musharraf for illegally and unlawfully detaining 60 judges of superior court after promulgating emergency and provisional constitutional order in the country.
The judges along with their families were kept under unlawful confinement and restrained from performing their judicial duties. Ghumman has prayed to the apex court to set aside the decision of the IHC and order arrest of Pervez Musharraf.