Khawaja Asif rejects Faizabad sit-in inquiry report

The inquiry fee constituted to analyze Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) 2017 Faizabad sit-in exonerated former Inter Providers Intelligence (ISI) director common Lieutenant Normal (retd) Faiz Hamid in its report.

“Faizabad fee was a joke as Generel (retd) Hamid and former military chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa didn’t seem earlier than the fee however solely political employees like me did,” stated the defence minister throughout an interview with a non-public TV channel.

The defence minister added that when he appeared earlier than the fee, he realised that there was no seriousness there.

“The Faizabad inquiry fee should introspect about whether or not it fulfilled its responsibility or not,” he added.

The Faizabad sit-in fee, which was constituted on Supreme Court docket orders following the case pertaining to the 2017 sit-in at Faizabad led by former Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi, gave a clear chit to the previous spymaster and former Punjab Rangers director common Main Normal (retd) Azhar Naveed Hayat.

Each the previous army officers have been alleged of distributing cash amongst individuals of the sit-in protest within the federal capital. On the time of the protest, Hamid was heading ISI’s counter intelligence wing and held the rank of a significant common.

The fee was led by Dr Akhtar Ali Shah, a former officer of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, and included senior PAS official Khushhal Khan and former inspector common Tahir Alam.

The inquiry physique came upon that then-army chief and ISI director common had given Hamid permission to signal the settlement as an arbitrator. Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and former inside minister Ahsan Iqbal had additionally agreed to signing of the accord by Hamid on November 25, 2017, following which the demonstrators dispersed.

The probe physique was tasked with figuring out the perpetrators who facilitated the sit-in. Nevertheless, it merely recommended taking authorized motion towards the people in gentle of the federal authorities and Punjab’s findings.

In November final 12 months, the caretaker federal authorities constituted the inquiry fee for the implementation of the highest courtroom’s 2019 Faizabad verdict.

The probe panel was constituted on the order of the Supreme Court docket below the chair of retired IGP Akhtar Ali Shah after the apex courtroom rejected the fact-finding committee report constituted by the federal government.

Faizabad verdict

In November 2017, the highest courtroom took suo motu discover of the three-week-long sit-in, which was held towards a change within the finality-of-Prophethood oath, termed by the federal government as a clerical error, when the federal government handed the Elections Act 2017.

The sit-in was referred to as off after the protesters reached an settlement with the federal government.

On February 6, 2019, a two-member bench of the apex courtroom comprising beneficial that individuals, issuing an edict or fatwa to hurt one other particular person or put one other particular person in hurt’s approach have to be handled an iron hand and prosecuted below related legal guidelines.

It additionally dominated that the intelligence companies should not exceed their respective mandates. Later, the bench disposed of the suo motu case relating to the Faizabad sit-in.