- Information minister assures fair enquiry in Model Town incident, says PAT doing ‘politics on dead bodies’
ISLAMABAD
APP
Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid said on Sunday there should be “no politicking” on the Model Town incident.
The participants of All Parties Conference (APC) on the issue were the “remnants” of former dictator Pervez Musharraf and were creating “chaos” in the country to save him, he said while talking to various news channels Sunday.
Commenting on the APC convened by Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Dr Tahirul Qadri, The minister said they were only doing “politics on dead bodies” as they had no other issue. He assured that those involved in the Model Town tragedy would be brought to book at all costs.
The Punjab government had asked its law minister to tender resignation to ensure a free and fair enquiry into the incident, he said, questioning if former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi had asked his brother, former interior minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, to resign after Lal Masjid incident which happened during previous government’s regime.
Rashid said most of the APC leaders did not believe in law and the Constitution and wanted “disruption and violence to create anarchical situation in the country”.
“Did they ever demand a resignation from Musharraf, the then president, after Lal Masjid and May 12, 2007 tragedies?” he repeatedly asked.
The information minister said that there was no harm in reconstitution of the judicial commission probing the Model Town incident, if law permitted, but he believed that the PAT would continue protest as this was their sole objective.
The government would implement the recommendations of the judicial commission in letter and spirit, while a joint investigation team was also working, he added.
To a question about meeting with former president Asif ali Zardari, he said meetings among politicians and with political leadership were a routine matter. He said Zardari was a former president and the head of the country’s largest opposition political party. He, however, added that no formal schedule was finalised for such a meeting with Zardari.