DHAKA: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday identified six missing persons who relatives say were disappeared by the country’s powerful army from a detention centre.

Relatives launched a legal bid to force the military to produce 35 people who they alleged are being held in ‘unofficial’ military detention at a string of secret investigation centres.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan took up the case and ordered the defence ministry to produce these ‘missing persons’, reports The Straits Times.

Acting upon the court’s advice, the authorities presented some of the detainees in the court Saturday during an in-camera session.

BDST: 2041 HRS, DEC 07, 2013