ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday summoned the Caretaker Prime Minister in the next hearing of the missing Baloch students’ case.

The high court ordered authorities to produce 55 missing Baloch students in the court, or the prime minister should appear in person on November 29. The defence and interior ministers and secretaries should also appear in the court, the bench further ordered.

Earlier, the high court expressed displeasure over the ministerial committee’s report on enforced disappearances and summoned Additional Attorney General Munawar Iqbal Duggal in the court hearing. “We will also summon the human rights minister,” the bench said. “The court is doing, what was the responsibility of the executive,” the court observed.

“If we send this issue to the United Nations and get our country humiliated,” the bench asked. AAG Munawar Iqbal Duggal pleaded the high court bench not to summon the prime minister and other ministers.

“There is nothing in it,” Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani said. “What will be a joke and insult of the people of this country when they are being subjected to forced disappearances,” the bench remarked.

The representative of the defence ministry appeared before the court on the call. “Tell the interior minister to appear in court and his appearance will make no difference,” the bench said.

AAG pleaded again to the court, not to summon the ministers.

“It is not a rocket science to summon these people. We are talking for the rights of Balochistan while sitting in Islamabad,” Justice Kayani remarked.