Govt's fact-finding committee on Faizabad sit-in case rejected by SC

Front facade of the Supreme Court building in Islamabad. — AFP/File

ISLAMABAD: The government's fact-finding committee constituted to probe into the 2017 Faizabad sit-in was rejected by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, following which the court ordered the Attorney-General for Pakistan, Mansoor Usman Awan, to form a new inquiry commission.

The government, on October 27, formed a fact-finding committee to probe into the "role and directions" of all "concerned" officials in the management and handling of the sit-in in 2017.

During the hearing today, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said the apex court wanted to know who was behind the Faizabad sit-in.

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