Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday condemned the killing of nine trainee prison staff from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in a terrorist attack and called for an efficient probe into the incident.
“HRCP is saddened by the brazen attack in Lahore in which nine trainee jail wardens from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were killed and is utterly shocked by the ease with which terrorists managed to storm the wardens’ hostel and walked away unchallenged afterwards,” the commission said in a statement.
HRCP questioned the security provided to the trainees and said that the terrorists had better intelligence than the police, since the police chief admitted that he was unaware of the fact that trainees were lodged there.
The commission also commented on the negligence of the provincial government which has been entrusted with the job of providing security to all citizens. “It is far from reassuring to see the finger pointing and point scoring by politicians following the killings. It is hoped that sanity will prevail sooner rather than later and politicians will not fall for the terrorists’ ploy of stirring up ethnic tensions. Instead of indulging in blame games, the federal government and the governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab should invest their energies in bringing to justice the perpetrators of Thursday’s attack. The investigators must also probe and expose local networks of terrorists and militants who are bent on destabilizing Pakistan,” the statement said.
