Judicial Commission on Insurgency

It is so deplorable that our mainstream political party leaders including those of the PPP, PMLN, PMLQ, ANP and JUI(F) have had the courage to ask the governments in NWFP and the Centre as to what plans had been drawn for the rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons, now estimated at one million, from the territories where military operation is going on to weed out militants. The federal and the provincial governments should have had drawn plans for the evacuation and settlement of civilians BEFORE ordering military operation in the affected areas.

On behalf of the Good Governance Forum and on my own behalf, I demand establishment of a Judicial Commission on Insurgency comprising the Chief Justices of the four High Courts and the Chief Justice of Pakistan to inquire into the causes of the insurgency, loss of lives and property of the people of the affected areas, responsibility of the political governments in the whole affair, punishment for those who failed to discharge their moral, legal and constitutional obligations and compensation for all affectees as well as the infrastructure of the affected territories.

I sincerely urge all network members to join hands in demanding the truth, role of political parties and fixation of responsibility for the ongoing debacle. The media MUST also play its role in preventing disintegration of the country at the hands of the civilian politicians.

Mumtaz A. Piracha
May 9, 2009 2:44 PM