ISLAMABAD – The commission fashioned to probe the Faizabad sit down-in has summoned PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, who was serving as the Punjab leader minister lower back then, to appear in man or woman on Jan 3 (Wednesday) and file his account of traits main to and during the event.
Resources say the inquiry fee has additionally organized a questionnaire for Shehbaz so that every one the information will be received for preparing an in depth file that is to be submitted to the ideal courtroom on the twenty second of this month.
The panel had previously interviewed the then high minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal who was part of his cabinet as indoors minister.
However, Lt-Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed failed to observe the awareness and didn’t appear for wondering, resulting within the issuance of an every other one.
Faiz changed into DG Counter Intelligence inside the ISI – Pakistan’s top-quality spy organization – on the time the take a seat-in become held. Later he went to move the agency after the PTI founding chairman being the united states’s top minister eliminated the current military leader Gen Asim Munir from the put up.
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THE INQUIRY COMMISSION
In November last 12 months, the federal authorities had formed the three-member commission after the ideal courtroom rejected a fact-finding committee accredited Islamabad to analyze the matter.
The fee constituted underneath phase three of the Pakistan fee of Inquiry Act, 2017, is remitted with investigating the sit down-in degree by using late Khadim Hussain Rizvi-led Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to pick out folks that deliberate, financed, and supported the affair that disrupted lives in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in November 2017.
“The commission will fix duty of any character and/or authorities officers inclusive of those operating with intelligence groups; decide as to whether any disciplinary court cases or different legal movement is required to be taken against any of the aforesaid, if found worried,” read the fee’s terms of reference (ToRs).
A Justice Qazi Faez Isa-led bench in February 2019 had introduced a well-known verdict which thrashed the position of intelligence agencies within the affair. The judgment later caused filing of a presidential reference towards him in try and cast off him from the us of a’s pinnacle court.
But, he controlled to live to tell the tale the bid and assumed the workplace of chief justice final yr.
One in all first moves after becoming the excellent courtroom leader justice became listing for listening to the petitions towards the February 2019 verdict. however maximum of the petitioners hard the judgment started withdrawing their pleas as a 3-member bench led via the chief justice took up the case.
