NPSC to report to parliament

Published July 7, 2006

ISLAMABAD, July 6: The National Public Safety Commission (NPSC), a recently formed statutory body, will have to present its annual report on the overall law and order situation in the country before parliament.

This was stated in the first meeting of the NPSC held with federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao in the chair in the National Police Bureau (NPB) office here on Thursday.

A member of the commission from the opposition side, Nayyar Hussain Bokhari, told Dawn that the NPSC would appoint chiefs of all civil law-enforcement agencies like Railways Police, Rangers, the Frontier Constabulary, the Capital Police, the Anti-Narcotics Force, Customs Police and the Motorway Police.

NPB director-general Dr Shoaib Suddle gave a detailed presentation to the members of the commission on the role of law-enforcement agencies and overall law and order situation in the country, he added.

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