Senators Demand Commission To Probe Sahiwal Killings
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published January 21, 2019 | 09:39 PM
The Senators on Monday strongly condemned the shooting incident of a family in Sahiwal the last day and called for constituting a commission to probe the unfortunate incident
Speaking in Senate during discussion on Sahiwal incident, which was allowed by the Chairman, the Senators stressed for giving representation in the commission to one each member of opposition and treasury, both from Senate and National Assembly as observers.
The Senators expressed dissatisfaction over the constitution of JIT and demanded independent commission to probe the incident. Chairman Senate should seek daily report of the commission, they added.
They stressed other members to modify their approach, and avoid delivering speeches for the sake of speeches. They suggested reforms to bring about significant change in Police functioning.
Leader of the Opposition in Senate Raja Muhammad Zafar ul Haq criticized the constitution of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) and demanded exemplary punishment for the responsible of Sahiwal incident.
Senator Sherry Rehman criticized the Provincial government for not taking appropriate action against the responsible for killing innocent citizens.
Senator Faisal Javed said that the government will take action against those involved in the incident. He assured that the government will take appropriate steps upto peoples' expectations.
He said that unlike past incidents, the present government did not try to cover up and did share the details of incident with the public. He advised the opposition to avoid politics on the issue.
Senator Kalsoom Parveen, strongly condemning the incident said that in future steps should be taken to avoid such incidents. She said that no one should be allowed to kill innocent people.
She said that there should be effective legislation to check such incidents and expressed the hope that the government will take appropriate action.
Siraj-ul-Haq demanded forensic audit of extra judicial killings and criticized killing of innocent citizens.
Abdul Ghafoor Haideri demanded severe punishment for the responsible who killed the family in Sahiwal.
Usman Kakar criticized what he said the culture of JIT and demanded independent investigations of the killing incident.
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