LAHORE: Supreme Court lawyer and prominent human rights activist Asma Jahangir has demanded parliamentary investigation against those who were behind the recent Faizabad sit-in and from where a new lot came despite a successful operation against religious activists.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday she said, “We don’t want a judicial commission on it and demand that only a parliamentary committee should investigate the matter.”
“We need to know how the army became a guarantor during the agreement between the government and protestors. Why money was distributed among the protestors,” she said.
She urged the parliament committee to see how people reached Islamabad and who brought them.
On November 25, the security personnel carried out a botched operation against Faizabad protestors. Reportedly, a wave of protest sparked outrage across the country. The protesters were demanding resignation of the then law minister Zahid Hamid.
The police personnel started to remove the protestors in the morning, but later a new lot reached there and occupied the area.
