ISLAMABAD: Assault on journalist and blogger Asad Ali Toor Wednesday drew ire from different segments of society.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while condemning the attack on journalist Asad Toor, demanded a full and transparent enquiry to expose the truth. Bilawal tweeted that the attack on Asad Toor in Islamabad is highly condemnable. “His voice will only grow stronger and louder.”
He said the regime’s cowardliness on full display when journalists and freedom of the press are under attack. “We demand a full and transparent enquiry to expose the truth,” he said. Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Vice President Maryam Nawaz also reacted to attack on the Islamabad-based journalist in a tweet saying: “OMG! This is shocking! May Allah protect him. I hope he is out of danger.”
HRCP demands inquiry into PIB encounter
Says extrajudicial killing of four youth is shaking people’s trust in law enforcement
KARACHI:
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has recommended that authorities conduct a fair and transparent probe into the police encounter which killed four young men in the Pir Ilahi Bux (PIB) Colony of Karachi on April 28.
Closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage of the incident and chain of events leading to the deaths of the victims raise doubts over the police’s version. It also led to a protest by local residents on April 29.
The commission said in that extrajudicial killings made people lose confidence on law and justice. HRCP said it had learnt through social media that there was a police encounter in the Old Sabzi Mandi area where three Baloch youth were killed and one critically injured. The deceased and the injured were brought to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
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