LAHORE: A judicial tribunal, set up to probe the Model Town clashes between the police and Tahirul Qadri’s supporters, has handed over the call records of senior Punjab government officials, including the chief minister, to the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
The commission received the details of the phone calls of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, sacked law minister Rana Sanaullah, CM’s principle secretary Dr Touqeer Shah and 15 others from three cellular companies.
Deputy Director of the ISI Asad Ali Khan appeared before the one-man tribunal, comprising Justice Ali Baqar Najfi, to receive the data, analysis of which, he said, would be complete within 48 hours.
Attique Hussain Shah, a representative of Mobilink, presented the records of 14 mobile numbers to Khan; Sayed Arsalan Bukhari, a representative of UFone, provided details of one phone number, while Warid Telecom also submitted details of some numbers.
Meanwhile, Justice Najfi dismissed an application calling for the media to stop giving coverage of the tribunal proceedings. The judge asserted that sanctions cannot be imposed on the media, which is independent.
The hearing was adjourned till Friday.
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This is my leader, who presented himself for justice. Everyday he sets new examples :)
Let me get this straight: The tribunal "handed over" call records to a representative of an agency who taps ALL calls, emails, texts in the country anyway? What I would pay to look at Asad Ali Khan's face as he walked out of that court room
The beginning of the end of Khadim-e-ala