PM should know what's happening to ordinary citizens in Islamabad: Justice Minallah.

ISLAMABAD -- Islamabad High Court Chief (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah said Thursday Pakistan's prime minister should know what's happening to ordinary citizens in Islamabad.

In a hearing at the IHC over the alleged disappearance and subsequent recovery of Sajid Gondal - the additional joint director of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) who returned home on Sept 8 almost a week after he went missing - Justice Minallah told an interior ministry representative to apprise the premier of what was going on in the federal capital.

During the hearing, Additional Attorney General Tariq Mehmood Khokhar presented a report on Gondal's recovery to the IHC on the Centre's behalf.

"Sajid Gondal has been recovered and has returned" to his home, Khokhar told the court.

"What had happened to Sajid Gondal? What has been ascertained," the IHC's top judge asked.

"The federal cabinet took notice on the second day of the court order," the assistant AGP responded.

Noting that the credit went to Prime Minister Imran Khan for taking notice of the matter, Minallah asked: "Where is the copy of the decision of the federal cabinet? What has been done for ordinary citizens?

What happened to the prosecution branch in Islamabad? Has it been established? Now that the missing citizen has returned, is the case over?

The judge further lambasted the interior ministry official, saying the home secretary should have come to the court to apprise it of what had transpired.

"Shouldn't the interior secretary have come to the court to tell what he did to help in recovery of the missing person," he asked.

The judge observed that no action was being taken for the protection of the ordinary citizens but that "everything is happening for...