Minority MNA boycotts NA body meeting

ISLAMABAD - Minority MNA Akram Masih Gil on Wednesday boycotted the proceedings of sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Minorities, dealing with the burning of Church in Sumbrial, terming the attitude of the chairman biased and tilted in favour of local administration.
Talking to TheNation after walking out from the sub-committee of the NA Standing Committee on Minorities, MNA Akram Masih Gil said that the chairman Dr. Nelsum Azeem belonged to Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and alleged that for that reason he was providing undue support to the DPO Waqar in the case.
Ikram Masih said that the police had kept him in illegal custody for over six hours and barred him from attending the funeral of Robet Farnish who was arrested on charges of blasphemy and later was killed in mysterious circumstance in jail.
Giving details of the event, Akram Gil said that the relatives of Robert wanted to bury him at their ancestral village but the police had forced them to perform his last rites at some other place and when he objected to it they took him into their custody and kept him in illegal confinement for six hours.
Akram Gil said that he had brought the matter to the notice of the NA Standing Committee and a sub-committee under the head of Dr. Nelsum Azeem was formed to look into his grievances.
He charged that instead of dealing with the matter fairly the chairman Dr. Nelsum Azeem started favouring DPO Waqar who had not only kept him under illegal confinement but had also not taken action against the persons who had torched the church property in Sumbrial.
He charged that as Dr. Nelsum Azeem belonged to PML(N) that was the reason he was supporting the action of Punjab Government.
Akram Gil said that he had walked out from the committees proceedings and now he would take his case to the National Assembly and would table a privilege motion to get action against all those who had breached his privilege by keeping him in illegal confinement for six hours and not tackling a very sensitive issue on merit.