After a two-day probe into the Anjum Aqeel incident, the PML-N disciplinary committee has recommended party chief Nawaz Sharif not to demand the disgraced MNA’s resignation.
The three-member committee constituted by Nawaz on Sunday recorded the statement of Anjum Aqeel at Shalimar police station and forwarded its inquiry report to Nawaz.
A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that the committee had cleared Aqeel, recommending the PML-N chief not to seek his resignation.
“The disciplinary committee has suggested in the report that the incident of violence by PML-N workers on Friday night was a criminal act but the action had not been taken on the whim of Anjum Aqeel,” the source said.
He said the committee had said in the report that an old case of fraud of just Rs 0.9 million was suddenly activated against the MNA a day after Aqeel was cleared in the enquiry report of FIA Additional Director/Managing Director of the National Police Foundation, Zafar Qureshi, submitted in the Supreme Court.
Qureshi had said in the report on the financial embezzlement in the National Police Foundation (NPF) that Aqeel had entered into a settlement deed with NPF to resolve the issues pending for the last eleven years.
“The committee, smelling a rat, has reported that two PPP central leaders – one sitting and one former minister – were planning to secure the seat from Islamabad in by-elections by exciting the PML-N leadership to get resignation from Aqeel,” the source added.
He said the committee had found during investigation that ICT police’s rudeness had actually incited Aqeel’s supporters to violence.
“The committee said in its report that the police on Friday night misbehaved with the lawmaker when they raided Aqeel’s residence and even broke the doors of his house,” the source said.
Talking to reporters after chairing a disciplinary committee meeting, Raja Zafarul Haq said the committee had forwarded its report to Nawaz.
“The PML-N chief will decide the fate of Aqeel in the light of the report,” he said.
The senator said the PML-N would face no shame when the details attached with the case come to the surface.