COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES
Justice Syed Arshad Hussain Shah is heading the three-member commission for missing persons constituted by the Ministry of Interior on the Supreme Court’s directions.
THE PAKISTAN COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT, 1956
1ACT NO. VI OF 1956
[11th April, 1956]
An Act to provide for the appointment of Commissions of Inquiry and for vesting such Commissions with certain powers.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the appointment of Com missions of Inquiry and for vesting such Commissions with certain powers.
Statutory Notifications (S.R.O)
Government of Pakistan
Ministry of Interior
Notification
Islamabad, the 1st March, 2011
S.R.O.149 (I)2011,-WHEREAS on expiry of period allowed to the “Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances” 136 cased of, prima facie, enforced disappearances are still untraced and some new cases have also been received;
AND WHEREAS the Federal Government is of Opinion that it is necessary in the public interest to appoint a Commission of Inquiry to look into all facts of the matter and to make efforts to trace the whereabouts of missing person;
“COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES”
ISLAMABAD
NOTIFICATION
Islamabad, the 13th March, 2011
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry Act 1956, and all other enabling provisions in this behalf the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances is pleased to make the following regulations laying down the procedure for registration, inquiry, hearing and investigation under the Act 1956, namely :-
