By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Being the citizens of Pakistan, police personnels, are also entitled to constitutional guarantees including the ‘inviolability of dignity of man’, Islamabad’s top cop said on Wednesday.
Inspector General of Police, Islamabad, voiced these views before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights. He was speaking in defence of his subordinates, accused of brutality to impede the PTI’s ‘Haqeeqi Azaadi March’ on May 22, 2022.
The committee was informed that 100 police officials were injured and three killed, whereas 06 cars were damaged during the march.
The parliamentary body also learnt that 43 FIRs were registered and 11 people were nominated, 112 were arrested and 204 were granted bail.
The IGP Islamabad asserted that ICT police only took preventive measures such as anti-riot methods and tear gas to safeguard and secure the life and property of residents of Islamabad, in the light of judgement and orders of the supreme courts.
The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights met under the Chairmanship of Senator Walid Iqbal to take briefs on the harassment and brutal assault on Parliamentarians and political workers in gross violation of the fundamental freedom guaranteed under the constitution of Pakistan here at the Parliament House on Wednesday.
The committee noted that the same agenda was discussed previously in the meeting of Senate Committee for Interior and the stance on the matter by the relevant departments was the same; however, the objective behind the matter to be taken up again involved a thorough discussion on violation of fundamentally guaranteed rights purely on humanitarian grounds, abstained from politically motivated agendas.
The committee was also of the perspective that no individual cases should be discussed and defended on political rationale as this would not fulfil the spirit of the Human Rights Committee, where every human should be treated equally.
The chairman reiterated that the matter was taken up in order to ensure the state bodies should work in line with the constitutional guarantees.
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