The government on Wednesday reconstituted the committee on missing persons and handed over its chairmanship to the interim law minister.
Earlier, the caretaker interior minister was its head. The government committee on enforced disappearances became inactivea fter the resignation of Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti.
The committee will include the caretaker human rights minister, defence minister and culture minister as members and the committee will present its recommendations to federal cabinet.
It may be noted that a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa has been set up in the Supreme Court for the case against missing persons. The bench includes Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Musarat Hilali. Aitzaz Ahsan and others had filed petitions in the Supreme Court.
