Judicial commission into Rawalpindi tragedy goes underway

E-Paper | May 03, 2026

ISLAMABAD: A judicial commission headed by Lahore High Court’s Justice Mamoon Rashid Shaikh has begun a probe into the Rawalpindi tragedy in which nine people were killed and 44 others were injured during 10th Muharram clashes.

The judicial commission is expected to take testimonies of the witnesses and will examine the CCTV footage.

Meanwhile, a separate three-member inquiry committee has been constituted by the Punjab government to investigate the incident.

Violence erupted in Rawalpindi after participants of an Ashura procession clashed with seminary students in Raja Bazaar area on Friday.

FIRs were registered in four police stations of Rawalpindi including Pir Wahai, City, Bani and Ganjmandi.

Cases have also been registered against people who damaged public and private property.

City grapples for normalcy

On Monday, Rawalpindi struggled to return to normalcy as an uneasy calm prevailed. Section 144 of the CrPC is still imposed, prohibiting the assembly of five or more people in any area of the city.

Meanwhile, troops are still present in the city and aerial surveillance of sensitive areas is also being carried out.

Public and private businesses were opened on Monday but educational institutions remained closed. Markets opened and people were seen buying commodities/

Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi administration has instructed petrol pump owners not to sell petrol at higher rates.

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shoukat sheikh

Nov 19, 2013 02:29am

The instegators should be punished so severly that inthe future these hooligans think twice befor they think about doing the same again. It is mind boggling that some people ae killing each other because of a diffrent sect. People who are involved in these episode do they not realize that they are putting other people in great hard ship. No one should be allowed to take upon themselves to put enitre city injeoperdy. There are old, sick people who were not able to get cared for because of few of these brainless people. This is enough. Govt should take main instigators to gallows.

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kirther

Nov 19, 2013 05:17am

This is not the first time that Judicial Commission has been formed but they all failed or government failed to implement their recommendation for political reasons. This exercise of establishing Judicial Commissions will once again bear the same results as in the past. Nothing positive can be expected from the present impotent government or political leadership.

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