HYDERABAD: Jamat-i-Islami secretary general Liaquat Baloch has welcomed the setting up of a parliamentary commission on alleged rigging in the July 25 general election. He said its chairman must come from the opposition.

He was speaking to reporters before addressing a gathering at Masjid-i-Quba in Hirabad on Thursday.

Despite serious reservations about the election results, the JI accepted them in the interest of democracy, he said but it was a common demand of all opposition parties to address the reservations through a parliamentary commission. The senate chairman must be consulted in this respect, he added.

About the recent release of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law retired Capt Safdar on bail after the Islamabad High Court suspended their jail term, Liaquat Baloch said that verdicts of the judiciary must be respected.

Published in Dawn, September 21st, 2018