The interior minister meanwhile constituted a three-member committee to review the sit-in operation at Faizabad. The fiery cleric also slammed the interior minister and Punjab chief minister, saying, “Shehbaz Sharif is lying; he was not the mediator in the talks. Ahsan Iqbal was [also] not at all part of the talks that were held.”Rizvi said when the confrontation turned bloody, the army offered to be the mediator. Besides the law minister, the protesters had also targeted the residences of several key Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders, including MNA Javed Latif, Punjab Food Minister Bilal Yasin, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and former interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan. After the prime minister’s approval, the Cabinet Division issued a notification of approval for MNA Zahid Hamid’s resignation from the position of law minister.

Source: Pakistan Today November 28, 2017 17:36 UTC