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LAHORE: Alleging that an intelligence agency is being used to bring so-called revolution in the country, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz says it has prepared a draft law to regulate the agencies’ role but wants the People’s Party government to take an initiative in this respect.
“We’ve evidence that ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) is being used to bring revolution through a political party. We may go to courts against it,” PML-N leader and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar said at a press conference here on Wednesday.
The party had prepared a draft law to regulate the role of agencies but the government had the first right to take initiative for curbing forced disappearances, he said.
He said the party would, however, table a resolution in the National Assembly, likely to be convened next week, calling for defining the agencies’ role in internal affairs of the country as was agreed in the Charter of Democracy both by the PML-N and the PPP.
The resolution, he added, was aimed at confining the agencies to their original duty of improving the national security and not letting anyone interfere in their working, he added. It would also expose those who did not want to resolve the missing persons’ issue, he said.
The issue, having its origins in Gen Musharraf regime under a foreign agenda, should have come to an end during the democratic era with accountability of the past incidents, the opposition leader said.
But, he regretted, the occurrences could not be stopped during the last four years.
Referring to Kohistan killings, he said it seemed there was no government anywhere in the country as whenever and wherever terrorists and militants struck they did so without any let and go. The incidents, he said, were also a stain on the performance of the intelligence agencies.
He demanded that instead of confining its role to issuing statements and offering condolences in the wake of terrorism, the government should ‘come out of its slumber’ and hold accountable the police and other institutions responsible for providing security to the citizens.
Commenting on reports of likely extension in service of Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Chaudhry Nisar asked if such a large and professional army had gone barren and was unable to produce a general who could replace the existing ISI director general.
He said only six weeks ago the ISI chief had been leveling serious allegations against the administration which in return was accusing Gen Pasha of treason and raising questions about presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
Now, he said, a ‘muk muka’ (compromise) was being arranged to protect personal interests by blocking the posting of able people to important offices.
The PML-N leader alleged that the government planned to use information ministry funds for winning over the media with the help of some media persons. The funds, he claimed, would be doled out through advertisements and warned the state functionaries involved in it of accountability.
He warned his party would protest within and outside the parliament, besides moving courts, if the government did not shun its plan.
Referring to Imran Khan’s allegations about the Sharifs’ assets and tax matters, he challenged the PTI chief to get constituted a special tribunal of the judiciary or media of his choice to probe his (Imran’s) and Nawaz Sharif’s assets.
He promised that Hasan and Husain, both sons of Nawaz, would also disclose their assets before the tribunal where ‘PTI chief’s tax evasion for the last 35 years would also be exposed’.
He advised Imran to first get rid of the leaders in the PTI within 90 days against whom corruption cases were pending with the National Accountability Bureau before luring the masses.
