ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Friday criticised the law-enforcing agencies, especially police, over their complete failure to maintain law and order situation. “They are even involved in torture, substandard prosecution and registration of false cases,” it further observed.
The committee held a meeting at the Parliament House with Riaz Fatyana in the chair.
Committee members Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Fauzia Habib, Dr Mehreen Bhutto, Dr Araish Kumar, Yasmeen Rehman and Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood attended the meeting.
The committee was briefed on registration of FIRs against Syed Ayaz Ali Sherazi, an MNA from Thatta.
Sherazi informed the meeting about the excesses of police and alleged that the four false FIRs had been registered under the Anti-terrorism Act within three years against him, which were not based on facts. Justice (r) Riaz Kayani, Secretary, Ministry of Human Rights, after going through the contents of the FIRs termed them as totally fake and proposed Sherazi to go for quashment of cases. The committee recommended that all further proceedings in the registered cases should be stopped while the RPO would examine the matter and remove the irrelevant sections and furnish report within two weeks. It also called for shunning the victimisation policy.
The National Assembly body expressed displeasure over the absence of the secretary Ministry of Health from the meeting despite repeated messages and discussed illegal transplantation of kidneys and other human organs, adulterated medicines, and the practice by unregistered doctors and hakeems. It said the Ministry of Health and relevant departments had failed to implement the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissue Act. People even from Europe and India were visiting Pakistan to purchase kidneys, as the centres of illegal transplantation of kidneys were still running in the country, the committee observed.
It constituted monitoring committees consisting parliamentarians for Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Multan and Peshawar to look into the grave matter.
The committee took seriously notice of substandard medicines and lambasted the performance of Pakistan Tib Council. The committee advised the Health and Law ministries to finalise the Medicines Act without further delay and furnish progress.
