ISLAMABAD: The senators from both treasury and opposition benches on Thursday demanded setting up a judicial or parliamentary commission to probe the reasons behind the sit-in at Faizabad by a religious party Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYR). Calling for the judicial probe of the Faizabad protest, Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the protest culminated in a one-page ‘national document of surrender’ that set up a dangerous precedent to hold the state and society hostage by a gun and stick-wielding mob of a few hundred. It is inconceivable to engage in an operation like Raddul Fasaad without the state using violence, the senator said. It also needs to be investigated whether it was an isolated incident, or the strange events of the past weeks in Karachi, Islamabad, Faizabad and in Lahore were interconnected in some ways, he added. Senator Sehar Kamran said that seven people were killed during the Faizabad operation.

Source: Pakistan Today December 14, 2017 14:38 UTC