ISLAMABAD – In one more main improvement on the Faizabad sit-in case, Federal Secretary Defence Lt Gen (R) Hamood uz- Zaman Khan, has written letters to all three providers chiefs instructing them to take motion primarily based on the Supreme Court docket’s orders, reviewing the function of army officers concerned within the 2017 sit-in staged by the Tahreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP).
The protection secretary, who’s the executive boss of the three Armed Forces of Pakistan, was appointed by former military chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. It’s for the primary time that Lt Gen (R) Hamood uz-Zaman has damaged the silence on the Faizabad sit-in. His letter written individually to Military Chief Gen Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan Air Pressure Chief Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber, and Naval Chief Admiral Naveed Ashraf NI(M) T Bt relating to the Faizabad sit-in fee within the mild of the Supreme Court docket choice is official one and he would submit his report back to the fee after he will get response from the three providers chiefs. Sources mentioned that the defence secretary has additionally submitted his written assertion to the Faizabad sit-in Fee.
It’s noteworthy right here that in November 2023 the caretaker authorities had shaped an inquiry fee to behave upon the Supreme Court docket’s choice within the Faizabad sitin case and decide the tasks of these concerned. A number of officers, together with former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Fawad Hasan Fawad, former director basic ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hameed have appeared earlier than the three-member fee and recorded their statements. The TLP, then led by Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, had staged the sit-in in protest towards the modifications made within the lawmakers’ oath, affirming their perception that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the final messenger of God. Because of the protest, the then PML-N authorities needed to sack its regulation minister Zahid Hamid. The Supreme Court docket had taken suo motu discover of the sit-in on November 21, 2017.