Move for May 9 inquiry questioned

Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari has termed ridiculous the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government's decision to form an inquiry commission on the failed coup of May 9.

"Being both the criminal and the judge—what could be more shameless than this?" she remarked. She said the Peshawar High Court had previously rejected the K-P government's request to form a judicial commission, deeming it a violation of the rules. She alleged that now the accused of May 9 would themselves introduce an act for the inquiry commission and then become the judges.

Just like the mastermind of the parliament attack case got himself acquitted, they will similarly get a clean chit from the commission in the failed coup cases of May 9, she apprehended.