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SC lashes out at security agencies for failing to submit new report on Faizabad sit-in

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Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Wednesday lashed out at security agencies for “failing to produce a new report” on last year’s Faizabad sit-in. After a weeks-long protest at the Faizabad interchang­e that had disrupted life in the capital, the government and protesters reached an army-brokered agreement in November 2017, in which the former had conceded to the latter’s demands. Justice Isa is part of a two-member SC bench, along with Justice Musheer Alam, which has been hearing a suo motu case regarding the use of abusive language during the sit-in and the difficulti­es caused to residents of the capital by the roadblocks placed by the agitators. Justice Isa asked the deputy attorney general on Wednes- day if the agencies had a report to submit. The deputy attorney general told the bench that no such report has been furnished because the court had not passed any orders in this regard. To this, Justice Isa said that the security agencies should have submitted a new report when the court had expressed its dissatisfa­ction over the previous report on the same issue.Who is paying you? Who is paying the InterServi­ces Intelligen­ce? No one should consider themselves above the law,” he said while addressing the deputy attorney general. “The army did not establish this country and the state will not be ruled on the whims and wishes of anyone.” “Read history to know how Pakistan was establishe­d; Quaidi-Azam was not surrounded by a brigade but a leadership willing to create Pakistan,” he said. Last month, the SC had rejected ISI’s report on the Faizabad sit-in, calling it “unsatisfac­tory”. “This report is deeply unsettling: it has been prepared by one of the premier agencies of the country, yet a journalist could have given more details [about the protests] than this report,” Justice Isa had said after reviewing the document.Taking about the inaction on part of the government against the Faizabad protesters, Justice Isa during today’s hearing remarked: “No one moves against them who block roads, resort to torture and torch vehicles,” he said. “Those claiming to be ‘Aashiq e Rasool’ used derogatory language — this is not Islam. They are enemies of Islam; they portray a horrible picture of the religion.” Source: dawn.com/

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