ISLAMABAD: Frontier Constabulary on Thursday took over the safety of parliament home on the directives of Inside Minister Ahsan Iqbal.
Reportedly the paramilitary troops on Tuesday withdrew from offering safety to the parliament following an open protest by the inside minister in opposition to their deployment on the court docket complicated the place former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s listening to was beneath means.
The FC personnel is remitted to help police and elite power in offering safety on the entry/exit of the parliament, and its checking factors.
On October 2, Rangers personnel disallowed Inside Minister Ahsan Iqbal from coming into the accountability court docket. The minister arrived because the court docket performed listening to of three NAB references filed in opposition to Nawaz Sharif.
The episode irked the minister who stated that he would moderately resign than be a “puppet minister”. He stated that the Rangers claimed to have “their very own orders”, including that this can be a deplorable state of affairs which calls for being taken discover of.
“Rangers are subordinate to my ministry…they’re imagined to work beneath the command of the civil administration. If Rangers have refused to look at orders, a high-level inquiry will likely be held and we’ll see who has challenged the writ of the federal government,” stated a visibly upset Iqbal.
