The panel had previously interviewed the then prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal who was part of his cabinet as interior ministe
ISLAMABAD: The Inquiry Commission constituted by the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan to probe the Faizabad sit-in has summoned former prime minister Shahbaz Sharif, who was the Punjab chief minister when the sit-in was staged, to appear in-person on Jan 3 (Wednesday) and record his account of developments leading to and during the event, the commission’s sources said.
Sources say the Inquiry Commission has also prepared a questionnaire for Shehbaz so that all the details could be obtained for preparing a detailed report which is to be submitted to the Supreme Court on the 22nd of this month.
The panel had previously interviewed the then prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal who was part of his cabinet as interior minister.
In November last year, the federal government had formed the three-member commission after the Supreme Court rejected a fact-finding committee authorised Islamabad to investigate the matter.
The commission constituted under Section 3 of the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry Act, 2017, is mandated with investigating the sit-in stage by late Khadim Hussain Rizvi-led Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) to identify those who planned, financed, and supported the affair that disrupted lives in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in November 2017. The Commission would submit his inquiry report on 22nd of January, 2024, the sources said.