Following the Supreme Court verdict in the Asghar Khan case, former army chief Gen (retired) Aslam Beg and former ISI director general Gen (retired) Asad Durrani should be arrested and investigated, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday.
He said facts obtained from these investigations must be made public.
He was addressing Meet the Press programme at the Faisalabad Press Club.
Keeping in view the Federal Investigation Agency’s track record, he said, any inquiry conducted by the agency could not be considered credible.
“Younas Habib is a convicted person and a man of dubious character,” he said.
He said that the SC had expunged eight paragraphs from the written statement presented by Younas Habib in the court during the hearing of the Asghar Khan case. Had these paragraphs not been expunged, a ban could be imposed on the Pakistan People’s Party, he said.
“I will make sure these paragraphs are included in the investigations against the generals,” he said.
The minister said that the SC decision was a “ray of hope in the prevailing darkness”. If it was implemented with good intent, he said, it could brighten democracy in the country.
He said the PPP was busy in point scoring rather than implementing the decision.
The establishment should be made subservient to democratic institutions to ensure the supremacy of the people, he said.
He alleged that corruption had remained the sole agenda of the PPP during the last five years. This, he said, was the reason why not a single resolution adopted by the parliament could be implemented.
He said the Aiwan-i-Sadar had become an epicentre of political activity and the PML-N will move the Supreme Court to bring this to an end.
He said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s tsunami had turned out to be Poras’s Elephant, which was trampling its own army. He said Khan would fail to achieve his agenda.
On the other hand, he said, if the PM-N came to power again, energy crisis would be overcome in three years.
On terrorism and military operation
Talking about the Centre’s steps to eradicate terrorism, Sanauallah said there weren’t any. He said the government had not taken the military leadership into confidence in this respect either.
Opposing a military operation in South Waziristan, he said the PML-N would resist if the PPP tried to delay the general elections under the pretext of a military operation. He, instead, stressed on establishing the government’s writ in South Waziristan. He said that the prevailing wave of terrorism had started during Gen (retired) Pervez Musharraf’s regime and the incumbent government was pursuing his policies.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 31st, 2012.
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Very contradictory. On the one hand you don't trust politicians who are the representatives of the people and on the other you want subservience to democratic institutions? Please make up your mind....