BY TARIQ BUTT

ISLAMABAD: The government has ordered all police officials, including inspectors general of police (IGPa), to secure the release of all missing person by Tuesday.

All regional police officers, central police officers and district police officers have been asked to form joint investigation teams and keep the provincial home departments informed of all progress on this front.

Acting on the orders of the Supreme Court, the government of Balochistan has also directed all the police stations to register cases about the missing persons.

The Balochistan home secretary said the government had issued directives in light of the Supreme Court orders to register a separate case for each missing person.

The secretary the Home and Tribal Affairs department had received the documents of 65 missing people, eight of whom had been recovered.

The government urged strict compliance to its directive warning that any deviation would entail severe punishment to police officers found responsible for that.