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Saleem Shahzad: Report to be made public today
Monetary compensation for family, job for wife, free education for children announced. Police to keep investigating.
The commission has also shown Mr Shahzad’s killers, whoever they may be, that they can operate with impunity. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD /LAHORE: Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Thursday that the report of a judicial commission investigating the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad would be released on Friday; however the findings of the report were regrettably inconsequential to the case.
The commission had submitted its report to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani earlier this week. The information minister said that according to the commission’s report, the culprits involved in the murder of Shahzad could not be traced thus far, but the police and law enforcement agencies had been directed to continue investigations into the case. The commission had also proposed monetary compensation for Shahzad’s family, employment for his wife, and government-funded education for his children.
Talking to the media outside the Parliament House, the minister said that the report was being made public on the directives of the prime minister, and her ministry would be responsible for implementing the recommendations.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2012.
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Where is the Independent Judiciary Now??????????????Recommend
Was Saleem Shehzad the only journalist killed in 2011? If not then why is media focusing only on him?Recommend
Let the blame games begin.
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Can I please know the total budget/expenses of the commission ?
My guess, it ran into more than 50 million rupees.
What an absolute waste of money based on the findings of the commission.
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Why have a Judicial Commission? The whole world knows who killed him and the the reason for it. Case closed.
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This report has a whole lot of nothing in it. Is this report a trial ballon for the Abbottabad Commission Report? After wasting hundreds of millions and six months they are recommending 3 million for the family! The justice PCO style.
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@Roficopter
Perhaps because he had the guts to investigate what many suspected but no one wanted to talk about and that makes it newsworthy.Recommend
@Roflcopter:
I agree ..All journalists killed for free expression is a henious crime..and it is not a presumptive human right violation..as they had been actually killed, the SC must constitute a commission and to find truth and punish the guilty…
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@ishaq
An independent judiciary does not mean that they start making things up. A judge can only base his report on the evidence and facts infront of him, which in this case haven’t sadly stacked up. All this proves is Journalism in Pakistan is a very dirty and dangerous thing. .
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@Roflcopter:
You know it bro, Agenda
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Judiciary didn’t show the same level of enthusiasm at it has demonstrated in others. Mr. Hamid Mir and Mr. Rauf Klasra, please take extra care of yourselves. There are vultures hovering.
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CJ Iftikhar has a selective sense of justice. In the case of Shahzad, real injustice was done and the SC cannot come to a conclusion even when the perpetrators were obvious to the whole nation. But in the imaginary “Memogate”, the SC sees injustice and wants to set the record straight. So much for an independent judiciary !!
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@ishaq:
Remaining independent from any genuine and serious issues.
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The guy writes a series of Articles on how Military is involved with the Terrorists, how Terrorists have infiltrated the Navy, how the Military and the ISI have let go Terrorists who later turned and attacked Naval bases in Karachi and he disappears. He is found dead.
Is it really hard to figure out who is behind the killingRecommend
What a waste of public funds how do the members of this commission justify this
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Facts should be brought out & not the mere allegations.
BTW, people go missing in US as well, do they start blaming their CIA?
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@Noor:
Weak comparison
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His book which was released after his murder is worth reading. It’s an eyeopener.
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