July 18, 2008	Friday	Rajab 14, 1429

KARACHI, July 17: A high-level committee will be constituted within a week to reinvestigate two major fire incidents which damaged the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) building last year causing a loss of around Rs700 million.

This was decided by members of the senate standing committee on ports and shipping which expressed dissatisfaction over the two reports on these high-profile incidents submitted earlier and demanded a fresh comprehensive and credible inquiry to the satisfaction of the government and other stakeholders including the public, Senator Gulshane Saeed, chairperson of the committee, told the media after a meeting held at the PNSC building on Wednesday.

She said the committee, comprising 8 to 10 members, would include senior officers from the Federal Investigation Agency, Intelligence Bureau and Police.

The previous reports on the two incidents suggested that a short-circuit was the cause of the incidents. The senators also questioned the coincidence that both fire incidents occurred on Sundays.—APP