The Balochistan High Court Bar Association on Tuesday said the objections of the interior ministry regarding the credibility of the Quetta inquiry commission report must be rejected, reported DawnNews.
The association’s 17-page long reply to the Supreme Court defended the report’s finding and said the interior minister should be tried for contempt of court as he is raising "unnecessary doubts" on the report’s credibility
The inquiry commission, investigating last year's Quetta carnage that left more than 74 people dead, in its report had regretted that Nisar reportedly met Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, the head of three banned organisations — Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Millat-i-Islamia and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat — on Oct 21, 2016 to listen to his demands and conceded to them.
The report also "exposed the incompetence and negligence of the ministers" Ghani Khilji, President of Balochistan High Court Bar Association, had said.
The Supreme Court had allowed the interior ministry to submit its objections to the report, which dubbed the damning findings of the Quetta inquiry commission on terrorism 'unnecessary, uncalled for and violative of natural justice'.
The commission, which took 56 days to finalise the report, asked the state, which has receded in the face of those spreading hatred and murder, to re-exert itself.
Key recommendations in report
• The National Action Plan should be made into a proper plan, with clear goals, a comprehensive monitoring mechanism, and periodic reviewing.
• Nacta (National Counter Terrorism Authority) must be activated. It must do what the Nacta Act mandates.
• The public space needs to be reclaimed to counteract the virulent propaganda of the terrorists. The laws and Constitution need to be reestablished and the state must re-exert itself.
• The Anti-Terrorism Act needs to be enforced, and terrorists/terrorist organisations must be proscribed without delay.
• The federal and Balochistan governments must develop and maintain a databank with information or perpetrators/suspects of heinous crimes and terrorists organisations.
• Forensic laboratories should be not under the jurisdiction of the police, but of scientists. The results/tests should be uploaded in a central databank and easily accessed from any province.
• All crime scenes should be professionally secured, forensically examined and extensively photographed as soon as possible.
• Protocols or standard operating procedures should be developed with the help of experts.
• The shortcomings of the hospital, government of Balochistan and police need to be addressed and removed.
• All educational institutions, including madaris, need to be registered.
• Entry into and departure from Pakistan needs to be properly monitored; all persons must have the requisite documentation.
• The customs authorities should ensure that contraband is not brought into the country.
• If the media broadcasts and propagates the views of terrorists, then those doing so must be prosecuted in accordance with the law.
• The amount of compensation for the legal heirs of the deceased and for the injured should be expeditiously distributed.
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