ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan strongly criticised the report of a joint investigation team (JIT) regarding last year’s Model Town tragedy, which has given clean chits to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and former provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah.
In a tweet posted Saturday, Khan termed the JIT’s decision to absolve the chief minister and the former law minister as “shocking” and the “height of injustice”. He added that the JIT’s decision will give a message to police that they can carry out such acts again with impunity.
A report by the Model Town JIT read, “On rumours that PAT activists had abducted two policemen and that another policeman had been killed, some personnel of the force opened fire either on the orders of then superintendent of police (SP) security Salman Ali or at their own.”
According to the report, all JIT members unanimously declared Shahbaz and Sanaullah ‘innocent’ and dismissed allegations levelled against them in the FIR lodged by Minhajul Quran’s director administration as ‘baseless and without any evidence’.
The PAT held a protest demonstration on Friday outside the Punjab Assembly building against the JIT report in which Shahbaz and Sanaullah were exonerated.
