JC verdict a serious lesson for all: Nisar

WAH CANTT: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said that verdict of the General Election Inquiry Commission had serious lessons for all including the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
Talking to mediapersons after performing the ground breaking of the 500-bed Wah General Hospital he said national and public issues couldn’t be solved on the streets but can only be addressed through consensus and unity in parliament.
Nisar said that parliament was the appropriate forum to discuss political issues. All the political forces and the state institutions should work in unison to resolve them, he added.
To a question Nisar said that the Rangers had been given special powers in Karachi under the law. The Rangers are performing duties in Karachi as per the Constitution and law.
He said that the Rangers were deployed in Karachi on the request of the Sindh government but no one would be allowed to arrest any person in plain clothss and keep him in jail without any charge.
The government had neither allowed anyone in the past to do so nor will it allow it in future.
He also announced that an investigation into the incident of the torture of a Geo News reporter in Karachi would be conducted. To a question he said that there was no security issue for conducting local bodies polls in Punjab and it would be held as per the schedule announced by the Election Commission.
Earlier, the minister performed the ground breaking of the 500-bed Wah General Hospital to be built at a cost of Rs6.5 billion.
On the occasion, Ch Nisar said the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Wah had provided 96 kanals of land free of charge for the establishment of the hospital. The minister said on completion, the hospital would be the biggest and the best hospital of not only Wah and Taxila but also of Rawalpindi division.
Giving details of the project, Chaudhry Nisar informed that in the first phase a 100-bed hospital would be completed in one and a half year while in the second and third phases it would be extended to 500 beds. He added a portion of the hospital would be reserved for the treatment of the poor and labourers. —APP
NNI adds: Chaudhry Nisar said that all security institutions are highly active and terrorism will be rooted out from the country.
Speaking about the Imran Farooq murder case, he said, “We are in contact with the British authorities and Scotland Yard requested for granting access to the last suspect arrested in the case after Eid”.
Commenting on the much-discussed verdict of the Judicial Commission on electoral rigging, the minister suggested the Tehreek-i-Insaf ‘learn from it’ and that the Supreme Court revealed facts before the nation after a thorough probe. He said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) must learn a lesson from a commission’s report.