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Friday, June 03, 2011
Nawaz warns govt to mend ways or face the music
* PML-N chief calls upon government to learn from past mistakes
* Demands another commission to investigate PNS Mehran attack
By Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will give tough time to the government if it doesn’t mend its ways, said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as he rejected the commission the government constituted to probe the Abbottabad incident.
Addressing a news conference after a meeting of the PML-N’s parliamentary party, Nawaz said the government should comply with the parliamentary resolution in letter and spirit by forming an “independent” commission having upright and honest people as its members.
The commission should be in accordance with the unanimous parliamentary resolution seeking consultation with the opposition leader in the National Assembly, he added, and asked the government to learn from its past mistakes.
The former premier said, “We had serious reservations over the process adopted for its constitution, which was carried out by keeping the opposition leader out of loop.” He declared that his party would not let the government to drag its feet on vital national issues, specially the Abbottabad incident.
“What is the use of lengthy parliamentary session to adopt the unanimous resolution, if the government has to take unilateral decision”, Nawaz questioned, and complained his party was not consulted on the commission’s composition, terms of references and its modalities which, he said, had made the entire exercise void.
Nawaz said the commission was formed so poorly that even those who were chosen for it were not taken into confidence. He held that the government had violated parliament’s resolution by not consulting the opposition leader before the constitution of the commission.
“Today’s meeting has decided that the prime minister should consult the opposition leader for formation of the commission,” the PML-N chief told reporters about the decision of the party’s meeting.
The meeting also decided that another commission should be formed to investigate the terrorist attack on PNS Mehran naval airbase and one should also be set up to probe the killing of Saleem Shahzad, the journalist whom Nawaz called “a martyr”. The former premier also called for making the findings of the joint investigation team probing the killing of journalist Wali Khan Babar.
Nawaz called the Khoratabad incident a serious issue, and said his party would come up with its stance over the issue after the investigation tribunal completed its report.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk