Report on ruckus during Afridi's assembly visit ready

LAHORE:

Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan has announced that the report of a committee formed to probe into chaos, hooliganism and brawls during a recent visit of the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to the assembly would be forwarded to law enforcement agencies for action.

Addressing a press conference, he said individuals whose names and CNICs were not included in the official guest list were involved in violence and manhandling, which would not be tolerated.

The speaker said Chief Minister Sohail Afridi should have respected the law.

He termed remarks made against Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz after the incident highly shameful.

He also presented the investigation committee’s report on the clashes before the media.

“I am sending the report to law enforcement agencies so that they can conduct their own inquiry into the riots in the Punjab Assembly. Sohail Afridi brought people from outside whose names were not even on the list,” Speaker Khan alleged.

He reiterated that intolerance had no place in democracy and criticised selective attitudes toward state institutions.

“PTI members are political extremists. If they get support from military shoulders, they are ready to acknowledge them, but if they do not, they resort to abuse. This attitude is deeply regrettable,” the speaker said.

He warned that those involved in damaging property and attacking people would no longer be spared.