Supreme Court of Bangladesh has asked the Govt. of Bangladesh to come up with its policy on the rehabilitation of the Stranded Pakistanies “quickly” in order to save “the inmates of the camps from unhealthy and inhuman conditions of their lives”.
The relevant part of the judgment is quoted ad verbatim below:
Sadakat Khan (Fakku) and another vs Government of Bangladesh and others 70 DLR 1
Supreme Court of Bangladesh, High Court Division (Special Original Jurisdiction). Judgement on March 29th, 2016. Justice Md Moinul Islam Choudhury and Justice JMB Hasan
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75. From the above letters issued by the respondents, it appears that the Government has an intention to rehabilitate the Urdu Speaking inmates of Mohammadpur and Mirpur camp areas. Now a matter has to be decided whether the Government has taken a decision to rehabilitate the Urdu speaking stranded Pakistanies who somehow managed to the National Identity Card or as the citizen of Bangladesh citizens or even as the stateless people. In this regard it would be a policy matter on behalf of the Government but we express our anxiety in undertaking such kind of rehabilitation project at huge costs of the public fund. In such circumstances the respondents Government of Bangladesh should make a thorough investigation into the number of the inmate of the camps who intend to be citizens by expressing their allegiance to Bangladesh and who still claim themselves as stranded Pakistani. The Pakistanies should be deported to Pakistan by the help of the United Nation. The Government should consciously examine individual person who can claim to be entitled for rehabilitation under the rehabilitation programme.
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80. Furthermore, this court observes that if the Government of Bangladesh takes a policy to rehabilitate the inmates of the camps within Bangladesh, in particular, the Jeneva Camp in PS Mohammadpur, Dhaka and also designate camp areas in PS Pallabi, Mirpur and any other camps as stated by the petitioners in these writ petitions as per the letter dated 30-12-2014 (Annexure 4(1) of the Supplementary Affidavit-in-Opposition filed by the respondents No. 1 and 2), the Government must do it carefully and consciously but quickly in order to save the selected (as per guideline given in this judgment) inmates of the camps from unhealthy and inhuman conditions of their lives. The interim orders of statusquo/stay issued at the time of issuance of the Rules and thereafter extended by this Court in those writ petitions are hereby recalled and vacated.
The office is directed to communicate the judgment and order to the concerned parties immediately.
Ed. [Sic]
Per Justice Md Moinul Islam Choudhury
Published in the Dhaka Law Reports (DLR), January 2018 issue, 70 DLR 1
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