
The federal government's petition also said the High Court had "not considered the sensitivity of the case" in the context of Pakistan's ongoing campaign against "internal and external terrorism."
The petition said the government had "classified information which could be made the basis of (a) detention order." The government's action appeared to be aimed at clearing the air before meetings of the Foreign Secretaries and Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt later this month.