Despite repeated notices by the Peshawar High Court, the federal government has failed to file comments in reply to two separate petitions challenging the detention of alleged Al Qaeda members and Pakistanis, who had crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan. Deputy Attorney General Salahuddin Khan informed a two-member bench of the high court that the federal government had been compiling the comments, which would be filed within next few days. The bench took exception to the delay, and directed the federal government to positively file comments within a week. The petitions were filed by a former Pakistan Muslim League (N) MNA Jawed Ibraheem Paracha, challenging the detention of 57 alleged Al-Qaeda suspects and 143 Pakistanis.
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The PML (N), one of the two largest political parties of the country, is facing crisis with the absence of its chief, exiled former premier Mian Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother, former Punjab chief minister, Shehbaz Sharif. It was the only "mainstream" party that opposed Islamabad’s Afghan policy. |