ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: The interior ministry will conduct an inquiry into the D-12 sector incident through the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) or the Punjab Police to identify those responsible for killing two villagers during the clash on July 28.

“We cannot disclose the report of a recently completed judicial inquiry which directs us to hold an impartial investigation into the incident through a third party,” senior joint secretary of the interior ministry, Iftikhar Ahmed, told reporters at a press conference held at the ministry on Saturday.

The ministry’s joint secretary, Malik Arshad, Chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) Mir Laiq Shah, the authority’s member administration, Ghulam Dastagir, and other senior officials of both the ministry and the CDA were present on the occasion.

The officials of the ministry and the CDA were reluctant to disclose the content of the judicial inquiry conducted by District and Sessions Judge Islamabad Mian Farooq Ahmed.

They said the inquiry had directed them to complete the investigation within three weeks and take action against the responsible people.

However, the senior joint secretary defended the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration and capital police when he was asked as to why the villagers’ complaint had so far not been entertained by the Golra police station, while a case was registered against the villagers on the complaint of the SHO Golra.

“Many senior officials of the ICT administration and capital police suffered bullet injuries which proves that the villagers opened fire first,” Iftikhar Ahmed said.

The judicial inquiry, he said, had held the villagers as well as the officials of ICT administration, CDA and police responsible for the clash. However, it did not nominate the persons who opened fire during the incident.

Responding to a question as to how two villagers died if the officials of the ICT, CDA and police did not retaliate, Mr Ahmed said the police opened fire in self defence thus no case could be registered against the officials.

He said five senior officials of the police, CDA and ICT administration, who had taken part in the July 28 operation, had been suspended so that they could not influence the investigation report to be held by the third party.

Joint secretary Malik Arshad said: “It does not matter if the complaint of the aggrieved party (villagers) has not been

He said the villagers had moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench to get their FIR registered with the relevant police station. “The inquiry report has also directed us to wait for the verdict of the LHC and any decision regarding registering of the FIR from the villagers’ side would be taken in the light of the LHC’s order,” Mr Arshad said.

Speaking on this occasion, the CDA chairman, Mir Laiq Shah, said the CDA would not change its policy and the villagers would not be given further compensation.