Missing persons: Judicial Commission will submit report to Supreme Court by December 31

The judicial commission constituted for the recovery of missing persons has completed its investigation and would present its final report to the Supreme Court by December 31, it is reliably learnt on Monday. Whether The commission was constituted in Mach 2010 headed by former Supreme Court judge Kamal Mansoor Alam with former Lahore High Court judge, Nasira Javed Iqbal and Fazlur Rehman.
The report was to be submitted on August 28, 2010 but for reasons best known to the commission it was postponed. Now the commission has completed the deskwork and decided to present its report to the apex court in December, which may be a sigh of relief for the kiths and kin of missing persons. The commission was mandated to prepare a comprehensive list of missing persons with all relevant information and evidence, recommend appropriate procedure for tracing them along with compensation to their families. It was also empowered to fix the responsibility of kidnapping and suggest measures to prevent such happenings in future.
The commission, according to sources, has been able to trace 233 missing persons out of the total 393, while some 93 have wilfully left the country. The members of the commission were not available for comments. However, chairperson for Defence for Human Rights, Amina Masood Janjua, told Business Recorder that the commission had finalised its report four months back and was about to submit it in August last but was deliberately delayed for unknown reasons.
"If the report is made public, it will be a big breakthrough in recovery of missing persons, as the relatives of missing persons have no other options except the apex court, which must give relief to the victims," she remarked. Amina, whose organisation represents the missing persons in Pakistan, said that the testimonies submitted by people released by intelligence agencies were with the interior ministry but no one was given a copy of those documents, which is strange.