ISLAMABAD: It is revealed that the efforts were done to burnt the record of the Establishment Record of the National Assembly present on the fourth floor; meanwhile the fire alarm system present on the floor has also been made nonfunctional.
Due to timely intimation the parliament remained safe from burning; meanwhile Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi after taking the strict notice of the incident has ordered Secretary Assembly to investigate into the incident and present the report immediately.
The record of the officers of the National Assembly and other officials is present in the establishment branch; meanwhile the sources said that some people reached on the fourth floor on Monday night at 9:30 pm and made the fire alarm nonfunctional to set on fire the fourth floor.
Meanwhile on observing some movement on the floor the security personnel reached on the spot; meanwhile the people who made the fire alarm system nonfunctional managed to flee from the scene.
It is feared that the people who had made the fire alarm system non-functional could be the employees of the National Assembly Secretariat.
The verification of the degrees of the officers and other staff of the Assembly is going on and the perpetrators tried to destroy this very record.
According to the sources the Acting Speaker NA Faisal Karim Kundi taking strict notice of the incident has ordered the Secretary NA to present the investigation report immediately after holding the investigations into the matter.
It is worth mentioning here that the officers and officials had asked to provide the original degrees till 20th September but seven officers and other staff failed to provide the degrees till the prescribed date; meanwhile it was said that the officials who would fail to provide original degrees would be suspended from their posts.
The officials were told that if they would fail to provide degrees instead of suspension they would be terminated from service.
The sources have claimed that the effort to set on fire the fourth floor of NA is the result of the above mentioned warning of the competent authority.
October 4, 2011