The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has demanded that the Faizabad sit-in commission report be made public as the committee absolved former spymaster retired Lt-Gen Faiz Hameed of wrongdoing.

“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.

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.

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.”

The commission has recommended legislation and drafting of rules and SOPs to regulate the working of intelligence agencies, according to a report on Dawn. The commission also advised against using the paramilitary FC and Rangers in the urban areas.

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.

While reacting to Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s statement, he asked what about policemen who police raid their workers’ houses at night.

“For God’s sake. There is a shortage of discipline in two law enforcement institutions. We demand impartial judicial inquiry,” he said.

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.