Chief of Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the Sahiwal killings had on one hand, given rise to several questions on the working of the state intuitions, and on the other hand, spread a wave of harassment and terror among the masses.
Speaking in the Senate on Monday, he said that the people who provided wrong information to the CTD were bigger criminals than the police men who opened firing on the innocent citizens. He said that the CTD had changed its version on the incident several times. He said that the Senate as the upper house would have to play its role in bringing such events to an end. He called for investigation into all such incidents involving the CTD.
He said that the state was like a mother but it was a strange kind of mother that was sucking the blood of the innocent children. The JI chief said the PTI leadership had promised not to tell a lie, but during the last twenty four hours, the government had changed its version seven times.
He said that the constitution of the country gave the citizens the right to live but the Punjab government had snatched this right from a family by blaming it of terrorism. Sirajul Haq asked that if the victim family was a terrorist, why the Punjab Law Minister had announced Rs. Twenty million for the family. He said this offer of the Law Minister was an admission that the police had killed innocent people.
He said the FIR on the incident registered by the police had not named any accused. He said that victim Khalil's brother had alleged that after killing his brother and sister in law, the police had removed their belongings. He said that even the beasts of the jungle took pity on innocent kids but our society had gone worse in which the life of a poor man had no importance.
He said that had this incident taken place at night, all would have believed the CTD but as this incident in the eyes of broad day light and before the eyes of scores of people, every attempt to hide the facts would fail. The JI chief counselled the Punjab government to take the matter seriously. He also urged the Senate to expose the elements involved in the gory incident and ensure that they were given a deterrent punishment. He said the nation must know which agency had passed wrong information to the CTD. He said that if such extra judicial killings continued, there was no need of having the courts of the law.