Families of missing persons to get monthly allowance

The government has announced that the families of the missing persons will be provided subsistence allowance of up to Rs 60,000 a month.Justice Javed Iqbal of the Supreme Court said that the court would like to get information from the Interior Ministry in the missing persons’ case in an open court rather than in his chamber. He said that anything kept in secret becomes known to everyone.A two-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Javed Iqbal, is hearing the missing persons’ case.Additional Attorney General KK Agha told the court that the government had decided to give subsistence allowance to the families of the missing persons. He said that every affected family would be provided with an allowance up Rs 60,000 a month.Justice Iqbal said that the country’s economy was weak, but Zakat Fund could be used for this purpose. He said that he himself would talk to the finance secretary for the release of funds for the victim families.A deputy attorney general said that the commission on missing persons had issued production orders of one Hafiz Ibrahim Khalil, but he himself surfaced without blaming anyone for his disappearance.Justice Iqbal said that Khalil could have been under pressure as he himself remained in detention for two and half months and no progress had been made in the case.