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2019-01-30 India-Pakistan
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Senate panel rejects JIT, demands govt form judicial commission to probe Sahiwal incident
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[DAWN] The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Tuesday 'rejected' a joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe the Sahiwal incident, in which four people were killed by Counter Terrorism Department officials.
The committee made the decision after recording the testimony of the mother of Zeeshan ‐ one of the four people who were shot in the 'encounter' ‐ who said she had no confidence in the JIT's investigation.
"We are not satisfied with the JIT's investigation," she told the panel. "The police that are investigating [the incident] are the ones who committed the killings," she alleged, calling upon the prime minister to provide justice to the bereaved families.
"All we want is justice," she said.
PML-N Senator Javed Abbasi, who was also part of the panel, criticised the provincial ministers and accused them of lying about the Sahiwal incident. His remarks prompted a sharp reaction from PTI's Azam Swati, who said that it had been agreed that this incident will not be politicised. Abbasi, however, stuck to his statements. He also rejected the JIT and said: "Police are involved in the killings, they will not do justice."
"The committee rejected the JIT, Senate rejected the JIT, then what capacity is this JIT working in?" he asked, demanding that the government form a judicial commission to probe the matter.
He also pointed out that the ministers had changed their statements on the incident more than once.
The committee members collectively demanded that the government form a judicial commission. The panel also directed the interior secretary to investigate the changing statements of provincial ministers.
Zeeshan's mother, while recording her statement, also protested the "terrorist" label that Zeeshan had been slapped with.
"They killed my son and then they labelled him as a terrorist," she lamented.
The Senate panel, chaired by foreign interior minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
, assured her that justice will be done and said that they will not allow anyone to pressurise the families of the dear departed.
Malik condemned the incident, terming it a "assassination" and adding: "I will refer to those who were killed as deaders."
Zeeshan's mother said that her family had been living in the same house for the past 25 years. She told the panel that Zeeshan had studied computer sciences and was the "sole breadwinner of the family". He sold computers, taught in a school and gave lectures in a college as well, she said.
The dear departed's mother asked that even if the CTD had termed Zeeshan as a terrorist, why did they not arrest him alive.
"An Indian spy was also caught alive, why wasn't Zeeshan enjugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
alive?" she demanded. She criticised the ministers for "calling Zeeshan a terrorist on television".
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