SAHIWAL, Dec 28: District Public Safety Commission Chairman Syed Alamdar Hussain Shah in a press conference here on Tuesday said that the National Reconstruction Bureau had decided to make changes in the DPSC.
He said the DPSC would be renamed as Public Safety Commission and Police Complaints Cell. The chairman would have a three-year tenure instead of one year. The commission would consist of nine members - three parliamentarians, three district council members and three notables. The notables would be appointed by the district and sessions judge.
Mr Shah expressed his apprehension that the parliamentarians would politicize the commission. He said DPSC chairmen in their meeting with the president of Pakistan on Dec 30 would apprise him of this concern. Syed Alamdar Shah said police and citizen liaison committees would be constituted under the NRB plan.
POSTPONED: The president of Pakistan has ordered postponement of death execution of two brothers. Bashir Ahmed and Ghulam Rasool were to be hanged at the central jail on Wednesday morning.
They had killed Haji Muhammad Ali and his nephew Shahid on Aug 2, 1988 in Chak 32/2-L. The Okara additional district & sessions Judge had awarded death sentence to the two brothers on July 25, 1992.
The punishment was confirmed by a divisional bench of the Lahore High Court on May 20, 1999. The apex court had turned down their appeals on March 16, 2002. A mercy appeal to the president was rejected on Sept 18, 2003.
Earlier, the Okara district & sessions judge had passed the execution order on Feb 11 which was deferred by the presidential orders till Dec 29.
