Karachi
Pakistan Interior Minister RanaSanaullah on Tuesday admitted limits to govt writ in missing person’s cases and said that the state is responsible for recovering citizens who disappeared by force and termed the issue more painful than death.
There’s no denying and we all know how much writ successive governments have had and it still has in this regard, he said talking to reporters after meeting coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan (MQM-P) at the party’s temporary headquarters in Bahadurabad, apparently conceding the fact that government had limited writ in this regard, reported to sources.
Describing those involved in enforced disappearances of political workers, human rights activists and other individuals as violators of the Constitution, Sanaullahsaid that the government focused on addressing the issue where solution lies.
When asked that some enforced disappearance cases dated back to the previous governments of the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the centre, he said, There’s no denying and we all know that how much writ successive governments have had and [the current one] still has in this regard and what are its other aspects, reported to source.
He later reiterated this in a tweet, It’s a matter of embarrassment for the state that instead of bringing people under the law, they are disappeared and then their bodies are found. Everyone knows the extent of the government’s writ in this regard. I assure you that we are trying to solve the problem through reconciliation rather than confrontation.
