ISLAMABAD: Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has stated that the court only objects to the “unlawful work” that spy agencies do, not to the activities that they carry out in a legal manner.
During a Tuesday hearing over the application of the commission’s recommendations regarding Baloch missing individuals, Justice Kayani stated, “No one has any objection to the work of the [spy] agencies, the objection is [only limited] to the unlawful work.”
Justice Kayani emphasized that the court simply opposes to legal activity by judges, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and intelligence agencies; it does not wish to stop them from practicing law.
The judge made these statements the day after, during the course of hearing a case about the finding of a missing Kashmiri poet and journalist Ahmed Farhad Shah, was irked by authorities’ failure to recover the poet and had questioned whether spy agencies would run the country or the law.
