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      <title>PTI demands Faizabad sit-in commission report be made public</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has demanded that the Faizabad sit-in commission report be made public as the committee &lt;a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/news/30358295/faizabad-sit-in-commission-clears-faiz-hameed-of-any-wrongdoing"&gt;absolved&lt;/a&gt; former spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed of wrongdoing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“It should not be enclosed in a file and kept in a cupboard. Make it public,” PTI General Secretary Omar Ayub said at a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the day, the three-member commission, formed to investigate the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) 2017 sit-in, headed by former KP AIG Akhtar Ali Shah and included former IG Tahir Alam and Khushhal Khan submitted the 243-page report to the Supreme Court as well as the government.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Life in Islamabad was disrupted from Oct 2 to Nov 27, 2017, when protesters belonging to religiopolitical parties – including the TLP – occupied the Faizabad Interchange which connects Rawalpindi and Islamabad through the Islamabad Expressway and Murree Road.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They blocked the streets after claiming that during the passage of the Elections Act 2017, the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat oath was deliberately modified as part of a larger conspiracy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The commission found the Shehbaz Sharif-led Punjab government responsible for “failing” to stop the sit-in. But Shehbaz, the incumbent prime minister, has not been named in the report.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The report claimed that there was “no link to establish the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence director general LtGen (retd) Faiz Hameed and former Rangers DG Maj Gen Naveed Azhar Hayat.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The commission has recommended legislation and drafting of rules and SOPs to regulate the working of intelligence agencies, according to a report on &lt;em&gt;Dawn&lt;/em&gt;. The commission also advised against using the paramilitary FC and Rangers in the urban areas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moreover, PTI’s Ayub demanded that the inquiry report of the Bahawalnagar matter should be conducted under the supervision of a judge to have transparency and the guilty should be punished.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While reacting to Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s statement, he asked what about policemen who police raid their workers’ houses at night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“For God’s sake. There is a shortage of discipline in two law enforcement institutions. We demand impartial judicial inquiry,” he said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ayub added that six parties have made the alliance and Mehmood Khan Achakzai was the leader. He added that the alliance has a demand for the supremacy of law and the Constitution.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has demanded that the Faizabad sit-in commission report be made public as the committee <a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/news/30358295/faizabad-sit-in-commission-clears-faiz-hameed-of-any-wrongdoing">absolved</a> former spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed of wrongdoing.</strong></p>
<p>“It should not be enclosed in a file and kept in a cupboard. Make it public,” PTI General Secretary Omar Ayub said at a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Earlier in the day, the three-member commission, formed to investigate the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) 2017 sit-in, headed by former KP AIG Akhtar Ali Shah and included former IG Tahir Alam and Khushhal Khan submitted the 243-page report to the Supreme Court as well as the government.</p>
<p>Life in Islamabad was disrupted from Oct 2 to Nov 27, 2017, when protesters belonging to religiopolitical parties – including the TLP – occupied the Faizabad Interchange which connects Rawalpindi and Islamabad through the Islamabad Expressway and Murree Road.</p>
<p>They blocked the streets after claiming that during the passage of the Elections Act 2017, the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat oath was deliberately modified as part of a larger conspiracy.</p>
<p>The commission found the Shehbaz Sharif-led Punjab government responsible for “failing” to stop the sit-in. But Shehbaz, the incumbent prime minister, has not been named in the report.</p>
<p>The report claimed that there was “no link to establish the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence director general LtGen (retd) Faiz Hameed and former Rangers DG Maj Gen Naveed Azhar Hayat.”</p>
<p>The commission has recommended legislation and drafting of rules and SOPs to regulate the working of intelligence agencies, according to a report on <em>Dawn</em>. The commission also advised against using the paramilitary FC and Rangers in the urban areas.</p>
<p>Moreover, PTI’s Ayub demanded that the inquiry report of the Bahawalnagar matter should be conducted under the supervision of a judge to have transparency and the guilty should be punished.</p>
<p>While reacting to Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s statement, he asked what about policemen who police raid their workers’ houses at night.</p>
<p>“For God’s sake. There is a shortage of discipline in two law enforcement institutions. We demand impartial judicial inquiry,” he said.</p>
<p>Ayub added that six parties have made the alliance and Mehmood Khan Achakzai was the leader. He added that the alliance has a demand for the supremacy of law and the Constitution.</p>
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