FREQUENT changes in the formation of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the gun attack on former prime minister Imran Khan in Wazirabad has resulted in ‘needless controversies and legal complications’, diminishing the prospects of a fair probe into the assassination bid, law enforcement experts told Dawn.
Though the dust is yet to settle in the wake of the confrontation between rival political parties over the Wazirabad case, the federal government made a surprise entry with a ‘parallel team’ on Jan 22, something the provincial authorities alleged was a bid to influence the investigation process.
A week after the Parvez Elahi government reconstituted the investigation team — headed by Ghulam Mehmood Dogar — probing the assassination bid on Imran Khan, the federal government constituted its own JIT headed by former Punjab IG Rao Sardar Ali Khan.
Interestingly, Rao Sardar is disliked by the PTI because it was under his watch that the PTI’s long march in May last year was crushed, while Mahmood Dogar is not palatable to PML-N for his purported proximity to the PTI-PML-Q alliance.