ISLAMABAD: Former director trendy of Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) Faiz Hamid has recorded his statement before the Faizabad take a seat-in commission, denying allegations of conspiring in opposition to the authorities, resources instructed Geo information Thursday. the former spymaster was summoned via the panel — investigating the 2017 take a seat-in staged by the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) — thrice but he did not seem before it. He turned into then sent a questionnaire via the commission to which he answered and said that he held negotiations with the TLP on the instructions of the authorities. consistent with the resources, the fee had summoned the former navy officer on January 2 (Tuesday) but he failed to appear before the panel. This become the third time that the former ISI chief remained absent from the hearing being conducted via the inquiry commission, which earlier summoned him in the 2d week of December ultimate 12 months and then on December 29, sources said. however, the first note couldn’t be introduced. In November ultimate year, the caretaker federal authorities constituted the inquiry commission for the implementation of the supreme court’s 2019 Faizabad verdict.
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The probe panel changed into constituted at the orders of the ultimate court docket of Pakistan beneath the chair of retired IGP Akhtar Ali Shah after the apex court docket rejected the reality-finding committee record constituted via the government. On November 15, chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa remarked that the fee might be empowered to summon every body, which includes former army chiefs, prime ministers, and leader justices. The inquiry commission is required to put up its report to the top court on January 22. The probe panel had additionally summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and former top minister Shehbaz Sharif on January 3 however he too did not appear and asked the fee to send him questions. He has now been sent a 21-factor questionnaire to answer. earlier, former high minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, ex-interior minister Ahsan Iqbal, then-secretary to PM Fawad Hasan Fawad, and different senior officers serving in Islamabad and Punjab who were worried inside the episode had seemed before the probe panel.
