At least eight people-including two women- were during the clashes between Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) supporters and Police on Tuesday. PHOTO: MEHMOOD QURESHI/EXPRESS
The commission, headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi has ordered IG Punjab, DCO Lahore and DG LDA to appear before it. The commission is investigating the incident in which at least eight people-including two women- were killed during the clashes between Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) supporters and Police on Tuesday.
Earlier, the district and sessions judge Jawadul Hassan was appointed as registrar for the tribunal.
Other officers of the tribunal include Jamshed Akhtar Shaheen as assistant to registrar, Muhammad Din as staff officer of the tribunal, Samuel Javed as private secretary, Ghulam Yasin and Shahzad Khalid as additional private secretaries to the tribunal. Javed Iqbal has been appointed as custodian of record while Muhammad Naeem and Muhammad Azeem Badar will be Naib Qadids.
Qadri rejects judicial commission
As the judicial commission took shape, PAT leader Dr Tahirul Qadri on Wednesday rejected it noting it had been constituted by the government.
Qadri said they would not join any judicial or police inquiry as no judicial commission would be independent during the tenure of the incumbent government.
Addressing a press conference via video link from Canada, Qadri said that instead of relying on the FIR registered by the police on its own, they would file an FIR on their application and would ensure impartial investigation after ouster of the incumbent government.
He accused the government of trying to associate PAT activists with firing by showing fake bullet injuries in medical legal certificates of different police officials. He said the government is also hide bullet injuries of PAT activists, instead claiming they had been caused by sticks and stones.
He claimed that the barriers in question were installed by the police on the orders of the Lahore High Court four years back. He argued that if the police had any objection over the barriers, they should have approached the party during the day and resolved the matter thorugh dialogue.
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@mtlspiderz: Please do not put every responsibility on ALLAH. We should accept responsibility of our own actions. First ask this question, why this incidence happened in the first place?
judges are in the pocket of Shareef..
@Ch. Allah Daad: Suppose you had a brain, would you have used it?
Suppose in Canada Qadri Sahib erects illegal barriers in front of his house and Canadian Police goes there to remove them, would he refuse and attack them too.
Judicial commision is just a rubber stamp to acquit CM of the responsibility of these murders.
@Ch. Allah Daad: I storngly suggest you start believing in civilized norms and stop finding excuses for state sponsored murders even if your parents are in the government.
@Ch. Allah Daad: What court orders? Were these the court orders saying remove barriers at 2am? Or were these the court orders saying gullu butt can smash cars and serve cold drinks to the police. Please clarify....
nothing will come out of it..just pure drama to calm down the situation. How can a judicial comision hand picked by shahbaz shareef can go against him. Shame on PML(N) they turn out to be the MQM of the Punjab. But InsAllah justice will be done by all mighty Allah.
Qadri Sahib rejected judicial commission, because he does not believe in present system, laws and constitution. If he and his supporters had believed, they would not have refused court orders to remove barriers and had not attacked police who went there to implement court orders. Everything else is reaction and counter reaction.
The association of this judge with Khawaja Sharif and Iftikhar Chaudhry is well known. Now don't tell me that latter two are not close to the Sharif Family and Rana Sanaullah.
What a charade.