A/HRC/10/9 page 61 Standard cases 296. The Working Group transmitted two newly-reported cases to the Government. These cases concerned Faisal Farz and Masood Janjua, reportedly disappeared in July 2005 between Islamabad and Peshawar. Information from the Government 297. The Government submitted five communications, dated 11 April, 16 May, 20 August, 29 August 2008 and 15 October 2008. The first three contained general information on the Government’s cooperation with the Working Group. The letter dated 29 August 2008 expressed the Government’s disagreement with the contents of the press release issued by the Working Group on the International Day of the Disappeared and also noted its ongoing cooperation with the Working Group. The latter contained information on one case which had been previously clarified by the source. General allegations 298. Information was submitted by credible sources to the Working Group concerning obstacles reportedly encountered in the implementation of the Declaration. This information was transmitted to the Government in two separate allegations after the Working Group’s eighty-third and eighty-fifth sessions. 299. It was reported that the current situation in Pakistan represents a major obstacle for the proper implementation of the Declaration, inasmuch as the state of emergency and the amended Army Act could represent a threat for compliance in particular of articles 2.2 (obligation to prevent and eradicate enforced disappearance), 3 (obligation to take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent and terminate acts of enforced disappearance), 7 (obligation not to invoke internal political instability nor any other public emergency to justify enforced disappearance), 10 (obligation to hold people deprived of their liberty in officially recognized places of detention and to bring them before a judicial authority promptly after detention), 13 (obligation to investigate cases of enforced disappearance), 14 and 16 (obligation to try those accused of enforced disappearance before competent ordinary civil courts), and 18 (obligation not to adopt amnesty laws or similar measures that might have the effect of exempting perpetrators of enforced disappearances from any criminal proceedings or sanctions) of the Declaration. 300. It was also reported that key rights have been suspended. 301. It was also alleged that the Supreme Court was investigating some 600 cases of “disappearances”. While some of these cases reportedly concerned terrorism suspects, many involved political opponents of the Government. The Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, publicly stated that it had overwhelming evidence that Pakistan’s