Judicial inquiry: Imran’s party forms eight-member task force
Team to be changed according to needs, including investigative, legal and media activities
PTI chief Imran Khan. PHOTO: ONLINE
ISLAMABAD:
An eight-member task force has been formed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to deal with matters related to the judicial investigation into poll rigging allegations in 2013.
In a notification issued by PTI Secretary General Jahangir Tareen on Saturday stated the taskforce would co-opt members according to its needs, including investigative, legal and media teams.
Ishaq Khan Khakwani has been appointed as the task force coordinator while the other members are Dr Arif Alvi, Azam Swati, Ejaz Chaudhry, Shoaib Siddiqui and three lawyers, Farrukh Dall, Qaisar Abbas and Anees Hashmi.
Sources told The Express Tribune that the task force would also get legal assistance from other top jurists, including Abdul Hafiz Pirzada who has already been contacted. Interestingly, the PTI has ignored senior lawyers within the party – Hamid Khan, Ahmad Awais and Qazi Anwar – for the task force. The party’s old legal team has also kept its distance from pursuing the party’s case before the judicial commission.
“Hamid Khan has some reservations with the party leadership over their criticism of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,” a member of the PTI’s previous legal team claimed. “Therefore it is not possible for us to present the party’s case before the commission.”
Already, it has sought vote analysis reports of at least 37 constituencies from the country’s top registration authority. The results are to be submitted before the recently constituted inquiry commission investigating allegations of systematic and organised rigging in the May 2013 elections.
The party has requested NADRA to supply the certified copies of all its reports before April 15 and has even offered to bear all the expenses.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2015.
An eight-member task force has been formed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to deal with matters related to the judicial investigation into poll rigging allegations in 2013.
In a notification issued by PTI Secretary General Jahangir Tareen on Saturday stated the taskforce would co-opt members according to its needs, including investigative, legal and media teams.
Ishaq Khan Khakwani has been appointed as the task force coordinator while the other members are Dr Arif Alvi, Azam Swati, Ejaz Chaudhry, Shoaib Siddiqui and three lawyers, Farrukh Dall, Qaisar Abbas and Anees Hashmi.
Sources told The Express Tribune that the task force would also get legal assistance from other top jurists, including Abdul Hafiz Pirzada who has already been contacted. Interestingly, the PTI has ignored senior lawyers within the party – Hamid Khan, Ahmad Awais and Qazi Anwar – for the task force. The party’s old legal team has also kept its distance from pursuing the party’s case before the judicial commission.
“Hamid Khan has some reservations with the party leadership over their criticism of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,” a member of the PTI’s previous legal team claimed. “Therefore it is not possible for us to present the party’s case before the commission.”
Already, it has sought vote analysis reports of at least 37 constituencies from the country’s top registration authority. The results are to be submitted before the recently constituted inquiry commission investigating allegations of systematic and organised rigging in the May 2013 elections.
The party has requested NADRA to supply the certified copies of all its reports before April 15 and has even offered to bear all the expenses.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2015.