Sheikh Rashid slams Achakzai on Quetta carnage statement

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Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Tuesday while denouncing a statement of Mahmood Khan Achakzai’s about intelligence failure in Monday’s Quetta suicide bombing, said that Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief has benefitted the most from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

During his visit to Quetta’s Civil Hospital, the site of the bombing, he condemned the attack and said that people tackled the situation with great courage and determination. He further said that they have change the schedule of their protest movement after the blast, adding that the government has totally failed.

Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly on Tuesday, Achakzai blamed the failure of the intelligence agencies for the deadly blast which claimed over 70 lives.

Achakzai said that Nawaz Sharif should use the Quetta blast as a test case and give the civilian and military intelligence agencies a timeframe.

“If our agencies can find even a needle in murky waters, why can’t they catch these terrorists roaming freely?” he asked.

“The Quetta blast is the result of failure of our agencies,” the politician said.

He said that the terrorist attack was an attack on all of Pakistan, adding that Pakistan would not fight any other country’s proxy wars.