A team of HRCP members, comprising
Asma Jahangir, Justice Malik Saeed Hassan, journalist Kamran Shafi, cultural
critic and human rights activist Ghazi Salahuddin, researcher Nazish Brohi and
HRCP editor Rafia Asim arrived in the province a few days earlier where they
met with officials, members of political parties, lawyers, members of the
press, ethnic and religious minority groups and NGOs in the wake of sad
incidents of attack on Sardar Bahadur Khan (SBK) Women University, BMC complex
and Ziarat.
Speaking to a news conference
flanked by Lahore High Court former justice Saeed Ahsan, renowned journalist
Kamran Shafi, Advocate Zahor Ahmed Shahwani and Advocate Tahir Hussain, she
said, "Avoiding a pro-security policy, pro-peoples policies have to be formulated."
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| Asma Jhangeer |
She said that the killing of
hairdressers, doctors and teachers was not the solution of the problem, adding
that if the atrocity is responded with atrocities, it would bear atrocious
results.
"People have taken to the
mountains due to the operations in Balochistan," Asma said and added that
the resistant forces should suspend their activities for a particular period.
"After the incidents of Sardar
Bahudur Khan (SBK) University, BMC and Ziarat, they had come to re-evaluate the
gravity of the problem and they had met with the government officials, families
of the missing persons, students and administration of the SBK, doctors and
nurses," she said.
It was a positive sign that the
people had pinned hopes on the newly installed government and added that she
had a close eye over the situation of Balochistan and would not ignore it in
the future. She said that the HRCP had visited the province before the
assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti and had acquainted the then government of
the disastrous consequences of a military operation in the province.
On the occasion, she said that HRCP
would present detailed reports on the recent incidents in Balochistan which
would also incorporate police reforms, custom duties and other proposals. She
said that having met with the various people, she came to conclusion that the
new government is a ray of hope for the people but killing and throwing four
missing persons on the oath taking day of the government is a sign of not
changing the policy.
She said that the double standard
policies of the government and security forces should come to an end and
recommended that the provincial government should also recruit human rights
advisors.
She appealed to the security and
intelligence agencies to work with the purview of the constitution.
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