Judge warns Pakistan's gov't over killings
Pakistan's most senior judge says he is determined to push the
government over killings and disappearances in southwestern
Balochistan Province, Radio Liberty reported.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed
that the government is responsible for protecting citizens and
"failures to do so are bound to have consequences."
For months, Chaudhry has been trying to investigate violence in
Balochistan.
Earlier this year, he ordered the security services to produce
missing people in court.
Despite 71 hearings of the case, not a single victim of the
disappearances has been produced.
Chaudhry on December 5 ordered the provincial administration to
report its compliance with earlier court orders in two weeks.
Rights activists accuse the military of killing and arresting
suspected sympathizers of a separatist insurgency that erupted in
2004.