Judge Mohsin Akhtar Kayani of the Islamabad High Court expressed dissatisfaction with the authorities’ inability to locate fugitive poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah and questioned whether spy agencies should be in charge of the government or the legal system on Monday.
It is said that last week the poet was kidnapped from his home. His wife repositioned the IHC in an attempt to aid in his recuperation on May 15. She also asked the court to find, look into, and bring charges against the people who disappeared with him.
“Hostage [Shah] is not with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),” a Ministry of Defence representative informed the court at the beginning of today’s hearing.
The person went on to state that the ISI was disputing the claim that it was complicit in the poet’s forced disappearance.
“Now that the matter has gone beyond the jurisdiction of the ISI and the Military Intelligence (MI),” the judge said. They are narrating how they failed.
The defence secretary was instructed by Justice Kayani to provide a written report to the high court. The defense and interior secretaries were instructed by the judge to come into court today.
