Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Information Minister Shibli Faraz has said the Pakistan Army under its “self-accountability system” removed two of its officers who were found guilty of interfering into the affairs of Sindh police over the abduction of Sindh IG Mushtaq Mahar.
“We appreciate that armed forces under its system of self-accountability and discipline removed their two officers,” said Shibli while referring to the inquiry report of the Karachi fiasco made public by the military on Tuesday.
Shibli while addressing a press conference in Islamabad further said, Sindh Rangers had approached the Sindh police chief over the matter of desecrating mausoleum of the Founder of the Nation “because everyone was enraged and they were under pressure”.
“The security officials acted emotionally over the issue of violating the sanctity of Quaid’s mausoleum.
“But the [Army] has given its decision and we welcome it.”
The ‘Karachi incident’ involves the events that led to registration of a first information report (FIR) against PML-N’s Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar and his subsequent arrest under alleged duress during a visit to the Sindh’s provincial capital last month.
“The Court of Inquiry has established that on night 18 / 19 Oct officers from Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) and ISI sector Headquarters Karachi were considerably seized with the fall out of desecration of Mazar-e-Quaid. They were under increasing public pressure to ensure prompt action as per the law,” military’s media wing , the ISPR, said while making the report public earlier in the day.
