Police system should be reformed: PAT

Govt must include clerics, journalists and civil society members in curriculum review.

LAHORE: The police system should be reformed to provide basic rights to people, speakers at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) said on Tuesday.

The seminar was addressed by the PAT general secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Syed Farhat Shah, Imdadullah Qadri, Mufti Arshad Qadri, Pir Tahir Sajjad Zanjani, Allama Ameer Asif Akber and Allama Muhammed Hussain Azad.

A seven-point resolution was approved unanimously at the event. The points were: The government must include clerics, journalists, civil society members and educationists in syllabus review committees; a new inquiry should be launched into the Model Town incident; those responsible for Baldia Town arson should be brought to justice; the government should play its role to resolve the Kashmir and Palestinian issues; the transfer and posting of policemen should be handed over to Pakistan Army; The government should not take action against mosques for using loudspeakers; and criminals held on terrorism charges should be hanged without any delay. Gandapur said PAT had moved court to obtain the report of the Model Town investigation team. “However, the Punjab government has raised the point whether the judicial commission was constitutional or not,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2015.