Islamabad: Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tara highlighted the sacrifices made by Pakistan’s armed forces in the war against terrorism while hearing the case of the missing poet in the Islamabad High Court.
Highlighting the complexity of the issue of missing persons, Tarar said that more than 70,000 people have been killed in the war, which represents a heavy toll on the country’s security forces.
Minister Tarar’s remarks came as he attended a hearing on the disappearance of poet Ahmed Farhad, who is in police custody in Azad Kashmir’s Dhirkot.
He drew on historical and international precedents, citing legislation in Ireland in the 1970s allowing long-term detention of suspects, as well as anti-insurgency laws in India.
Tarar pointed to constitutional protections in Article 248 for members of the federal and provincial ministries and Article 199 (3) which protects officers of the armed forces from judicial interference.
He said that the provisions created by the framers of the Constitution should not be interpreted selectively. The minister told the court that the government is ready to solve all the problems regarding the protection of this law.
