According to Khawaja Asif, the minister of defence, the report produced by the inquiry commission set up to look into the Faizabad sit-in is not legitimate or trustworthy and hence has no validity.
After Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hamid, the former director general of Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), was cleared by the commission investigating the Faizabad sit-in, he made these remarks.
“Faizabad commission was a joke as Generel (retd) Hamid and former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa did not appear before the commission but only political workers like me did,” Asif stated in an interview with a private TV channel.
The minister of defense claimed that he realized there was no seriousness when he went before the commission.
“The Faizabad inquiry commission must introspect about whether it fulfilled its duty or not,” he said.
Major General (retd) Azhar Naveed Hayat, the former spymaster and director general of the Punjab Rangers, received a clean sheet from the Faizabad sit-in commission, which was established by orders from the Supreme Court in response to a case involving the 2017 sit-in in Faizabad led by former Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
