ZULFIQAR AHMAD

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Thursday decided to bring a resolution in Senate with the help of other opposition parties against the seven-member disputed Inquiry Committee formed to probe into Newsgate Scandal.

This was decided at a party meeting held in the chair of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who directed Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi to contact the opposition parties for bringing a resolution against the commission.

The PTI has already rejected the commission headed by a former judge who, according to the party’s claims, has close terms with the Sharif family, and his daughter Dr Tasneem Raza is working at Sharif Medical Complex, Raiwind, as vice-principal.

The sources said that it was decided in the meeting that the opposition parties in Senate, which had a similar stance on the inquiry commission, should pass a resolution, calling for holding probe into controversial issue through a sitting judge of the apex court.

The party also wants that after the inquiry headed by a sitting judge is done, the report should be presented to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court instead of the Prime Minister.

The meeting discussed the inquiry commission headed by former Justice Amir Raza at length, and it was decided that the fate of the inquiry commission, which involved national security, would be no different than the commission formed after Model Town massacre.

A senior leader of PTI present in the meeting said that the party would move a resolution in Senate, disapproving the seven-member committee formed to ascertain the source who leaked the ‘wrong’ information about the national security meeting.

“The view of PTI is that we don’t expect justice from the incumbent composition of probe committee, as there are several people who are close to the Sharif family. The Secretary Establishment is a blue-eyed of Sharifs, while FIA director is also working under Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore,” he added.

However, the vote of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), the major position party in Senate, would have a decisive role to sail the resolution through the Senate as PTI has low number of members of the Upper House among the opposition parties.