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DC, senior police officials sacked over Ziarat attack
[Pak Daily Times] QUETTA: The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... chief minister has suspended the Ziarat deputy commissioner, district police officer, a station house officer, a deputy superintendent of police and the guards of the Ziarat Residency, after receiving the initial report on the June 15 attack. Unidentified people on June 15 blew up the Ziarat Residency, where the country's founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had spent his last days. As a result of the blast, the wooden structure was completely destroyed, and the articles used by Muhammad Ali Jinnah were burnt to ashes. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) had claimed the responsibility of the attack. The decision to suspend the officials was taken in a high-level meeting on Wednesday. Balochistan Inspector General Mustaq Ahmed Shukira presented the Ziarat Residency attack's initial report to Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch. The CM declared the incident a result of negligence by the administration, and suspended all those responsible. The chief minister said that the incumbent provincial government would certainly protect national assets and "will never tolerate any negligence". According to sources, investigation into the attack would continue, and the government would take stern action against all those found guilty of negligence. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-27 |
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