Officials Involved In Sahiwal Incident To Be Punished; Says Murad

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jan, 2019 ) :Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed Monday said that officials involved in Sahiwal incident will be punished and no laxity in this regard will be tolerated.

Addressing here in National Assembly, the minister said "I assure the nation as a minister that perpetrators of this act will be punished and those trying to neglect of forget it would not be allowed to do so." He said that only condemning this incident would not be enough as the persons were killed in front of their children.

"Neither anyone can defend this act nor it can be compensated", the minister said adding that everyone sitting in this House should take responsibility to avoid such happenings again.

Murad Saeed said that hurdles were created in past to investigate Model Town incident and the murder of Naqeeb Ullah was also politicized.

He said that Rao Anwaar was defended by some elements in past who used to call him as `own brave child'.

He said that National Action Plan made after incident of Army Public school was not fully implemented.

The minister said that officials like Abid Boxer, Rao Anwaar and their handlers would have to be fixed.

He said that innocent people were killed in past during fake encounters and typical police culture was not changed.

There is need to change police mindset and collective efforts would have to be made for this purpose, the minister said and also stressed to improve accountability system in all departments.