Quetta Commission report highlights failure of federal & provincial government: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

PAT Chairman Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that fierce criticism on Justice Faez Isa’s report of the Quetta tragedy by a leading minister of the present government is not surprising. He said that if the report of a commission is not to the liking of the rulers, they do not accept it. He said that the Commission only documented the ground realities. He said that the same treatment was meted out to the Model Town commission report. He said that if the inquiries conducted by the SC judges are not transparent and up to the mark, where will the angels come from? He said that the nation should know clearly that there is hardly any institution left in Pakistan that can hold the rulers accountable.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri made these remarks while talking to the senior leaders of the party on the telephone yesterday. He said that the honorable Justice of the SC who conducted the inquiry into the Quetta tragedy has had to face the backlash and criticism from the rulers. He said that the rulers will now try to make sure that none of the people from inside an institution is able to hold them accountable in line with the law at individual level. He said that the government is planning to make Justice Faez Isa report ineffective so that impartial journalists, anchors and the opposition figures are unable to use this report as reference. He said that the findings of the Quetta Commission report are in line with the ground realities. He said that we are, however, of the view that it is not just the interior ministry’s but failure and incompetence of both the federal and provincial governments.

The PAT Chairman asked the rulers to explain their inability to provide funds and powers to NECTA, which was supposed to play the lead role in the anti-terror fight. He said that the meeting of the NECTA Executive Committee was held only once in three years, asking is it not correct? He asked if it is not correct that the Interior Minister held a meeting with the head of a defunct organization and accepted their demands but contrarily the NAP was not implemented in letter and spirit despite consistent demands of public, political, military and journalistic circles. Is it not a fact that the banned organizations have been holding rallies and processions in Islamabad as well as elsewhere with the permission of the government? Neither has sources of foreign funding been plugged nor has 100pc registration of the seminaries been carried out. He said that the nation wants all such religious seminaries to be put under surveillance and monitoring that have their connections with the terrorist outfits but the government has a different policy from that of 190 million people.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that considering this to be our religious, national and moral responsibility, we have issued a comprehensive counter-terrorism and pro-peace curriculum but the rulers failed to benefit from this work due to their malice and deep-rooted prejudice. He said that despite reservations, we extended our fullest support to the National Action Plan in the larger national interest. He said that rulers do not even bother to act upon the settled things for protection of life and honor of the citizens and when some institution pinpoints their failing, they immediately pounce upon it instead of reforming their policy and conduct.