National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has canceled a scheduled meeting of the NA Standing Committee On Information And Broadcasting ahead of its hearing regarding the Matiullah Jan case.
The meeting that was supposed to be held at 2pm was being convened to take up the case of the abduction of Jan with MNA Javed Latif in the chair.
It had summoned both Jan and the Islamabad police chief for a briefing on the issue. However, the speaker while using his discretionary powers canceled the sitting without giving any reasons.
On Aug 7, Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed rebuked Islamabad Police chief over slow progress in the case after reviewing a report submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the kidnapping of Matiullah Jan last month. In the report submitted by the Islamabad Police over the incident, the DIG Operations had conceded that the police were still waiting for replies from different departments, the assistance of which they had sought to unearth the journalist’s kidnapping.
Matiullah Jan was kidnapped from Islamabad last month and was found on the outskirts of the federal capital after 12 hours. Following his recovery, Jan said his abduction was linked to the contempt of court case against him.
The meeting that was supposed to be held at 2pm was being convened to take up the case of the abduction of Jan with MNA Javed Latif in the chair.
It had summoned both Jan and the Islamabad police chief for a briefing on the issue. However, the speaker while using his discretionary powers canceled the sitting without giving any reasons.
On Aug 7, Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed rebuked Islamabad Police chief over slow progress in the case after reviewing a report submitted to the Supreme Court regarding the kidnapping of Matiullah Jan last month. In the report submitted by the Islamabad Police over the incident, the DIG Operations had conceded that the police were still waiting for replies from different departments, the assistance of which they had sought to unearth the journalist’s kidnapping.
Matiullah Jan was kidnapped from Islamabad last month and was found on the outskirts of the federal capital after 12 hours. Following his recovery, Jan said his abduction was linked to the contempt of court case against him.