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Resistance to police action is terrorism, senators told
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A city police officer surprised a Senate committee by justifying the arrest of slum dwellers under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for resisting the recent bulldozing of the Sector I-11 katchi abadi."Police is an instrument of the government and were providing security cover to the Islamabad administration which wanted the illegal settlement cleared. The law is clear on resisting government actions," DIG headquarters Khalid Khattak told the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Tuesday. But the members of the committee were baffled rather than impressed by his defence of the heavy-handed action, which uprooted some 10,000 inhabitants of the slum on July 31. "This is not why the anti-terror act was enacted. It cannot be used at free will," said Senator Kalsoom Parveen, with other committee members nodding in unison. The administration and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) conducted the demolition operation in the name of clearing the area for developing residential sectors and fighting crime. Posted by: Fred 2015-09-10 |
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