LHC Adjourns Hearing Of DSP Suspension Case Till 2pm
March 16, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Lahore High Court has ordered IG Punjab Police to appear before it while adjourning the hearing of the case about suspension of DSP Imran Babar Jamil.
High Court’s justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry heard the case. Lawyer of DSP Liaquat Ali Qureshi appealed the court that judicial inquiry instead of departmental inquiry should be held of the case because his client was not satisfied with the inquiry as he was also threatened in the meantime. Rejecting the appeal of judicial inquiry, the court ordered IG Punjab Police to present in the court at 2pm today. Talking to media after the hearing, DSP Imran Barar Jamil said that higher officials were repeatedly committing mistakes but truth will win at last and fight will be continued till restoration. He said that he is committed to command the Punjab police in future.
Nato Must Stop Fleeing Taliban:Athar Abbas
RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN: Major General Athar Abbas, director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that a cross-border flow into Afghanistan was hampering Pakistan’s campaign to crush the Taliban.
“We are at full stretch. I have to say that the border is a joint responsibility,” he said in a presentation to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank.
“Nato must stop the cross border flow.”
According to Maj Gen Abbas, there are now 821 Pakistan army checkpoints on the border, but just 112 Afghan army or Nato posts.
A senior official has said that al-Qaeda ” leaders are having great difficulty communicating and they have been denied freedom of movement.”
The official also claimed that factions within the Afghan Taliban had begun fighting the mainly Arab al-Qaeda operatives and their allies in recent weeks.
Defiant DSP Moves LHC Against Suspension
The suspended DSP filed a writ petition in Lahore High Court for initiating judicial inquiry against his seniors.
DSP Imran Babar requested in the application that judicial inquiry be initiated against the accused. He said that he was pressurized to release the held terrorists who belonged to Afghanistan.
He requested to halt his suspension till the completion of judicial inquiry. Talking to media, DSP said that he did not accuse SP CIA Umar Virk, and urged the public to move the court against police highhandedness.
