GB govt plans
to raid hideouts of tourists’ killers
GILGIT, June 27:
The district administration of Diamer has requisitioned troops for raiding
hideouts of suspected terrorists who are believed to have killed 11 foreign
climbers on June 22. Officials said the culprits had been identified. They
belong to Diamer, Kohistan and Mansehra. “We will arrest them soon and the
grand jirga has been told to cooperate with the government,” senior
administration and police officials said. They said personnel of
Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts had been camped in schools and other places and they
would go into action soon after receiving a green signal.
Earlier,
Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Secretary Munir Ahmed Badini and Inspector General of
Police Usman Zakria said at a press conference that the culprits had been
identified and they would be arrested soon. “The culprits are within the
territorial jurisdiction of Diamer and we will arrest them,” they said. “We
have traced the attackers with the help of intelligence agencies, Pakistan Army
and Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts.”
They
said the grand jirga had been given names of the suspected assailants and
expressed the hope that it would help the administration in arresting them. They
said the incident had deeper links, but did not name the organisation which the
culprits belonged to.
JIRGA:
A leader of the grand jirga criticised the government and said: “They want us to
arrest the suspects, but it is not our job”. A former speaker of the
Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, Malik Mohammad Miskeen, who heads the jirga, told
Dawn by phone that it was the duty of the government to arrest the killers of
foreign climbers. The jirga would fully cooperate with the government. Mr
Miskeen said the jirga strongly condemned the attack on foreign climbers and
wanted the government to take the incident seriously. “I wish the government
arrests the real culprits, but its track record is not encouraging. It is
looking for scapegoats,” he said. He said foreign money had flooded the region
and local agents were easily found. He regretted that the incident had earned a
bad name for Pakistan
across the globe.
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