ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said he supported the demand for a judicial inquiry into the May 9 riots until other similar incidents involving the PTI were investigated.
In a post on X, he said that along with investigating last year’s events, the commission should also investigate several other incidents, including the 2014 dharna, attacks on PTV and Parliament, and attacks on police outside Zaman Park.
“A so-called political party which has a consistent policy and history of using violence as a political tool used it again on May 9 as a tool of its politics,” Iqbal added. PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had some valid reservations which his party would address.
“I was there when Nawaz Sharif met him and I also went to see him before […] Fazl’s personal meeting with Nawaz was very encouraging,” Iqbal said while talking to Geo News.PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said, that while social media cannot be curbed completely, neither can it be used as a “free tool to foment anarchy in the country”.
Iqbal said there was a need to reach a consensus on the issue of social media, adding that several nations had made their code of conduct on the matter.
