The apex court has issued notices to all parties. Last month, a commission formed to probe the Faizabad sit-in cleared former spymaster Lt Gen Faiz Hameed of any wrongdoing and pinned the blame on the government of the time.

The three-member commission headed by former AIG KP Dr Akhtar Ali Shah and included former IG Tahir Alam and Khushhal Khan finalised a 243-page report and submitted it to the Supreme Court as well as the government.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

In reaction to the report, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf demanded that the Faizabad sit-in commission report be made public.

“According to my perspective, General Faiz Hameed cannot role be absolved,” PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat said in an interview with Aaj News last month.