LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Tuesday issued notices to Deputy Attorney General Amer Rehman to appear before the court on March 15 in an application seeking direction to restrict the government from handing over the arrested Taliban leaders to any other country.
Khalid Khawaja of Defence of Human Rights, submitted an application that Tayyab Popalzai, Abdul Qayyum Zakir, Alam Mahsood, Mohtasim Agha Jan and others were arrested by intelligence agencies
He prayed the court to restrict government from handing over them to any foreign country and that only intelligence agencies of Pakistan should be allowed to interrogate them.
After hearing the arguments, LHC Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif issued notices to federal government for March 15.
It is pertinent to mention here that this application was filed in a pending case in which court had restricted government from handing over Taliban leaders Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mulla Abdus Salam, Mulla Kabir, Mulla Muhammad and Amir Mwaaviya to any foreign country till its decision and adjourned the matter till March 15. --APP