‘Quetta report proof PPP demands should have been implemented’

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tweeted Saturday the Quetta commission report on the hospital carnage “was yet more proof the government should have implemented our four demands by now”.

The PPP chairman added that the government should have taken notice and action based on the Quetta commission report and there was no reason for them being allowed to rule a day longer.

An inquiry commission under the Supreme Court slammed the federal interior minister, the Balochistan chief minister and home minister for providing misleading information following a deadly terrorist attack in Quetta which claimed 70 lives and injured as many as 112 people earlier this year.

On August 8, a powerful explosion ripped through Civil Hospital in Quetta when Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Kasi's body was being brought to the emergency department. Kasi was gunned down in a targeted killing earlier that day.

In its findings, the report stated that the Federal Interior Ministry lacks a 'sense of ministerial responsibility'.

"The [Interior] Ministry's National Security Internal Policy is not being implemented. The Officers of the Ministry appear more interested in serving the Minister than the people of Pakistan," said the inquiry report.

"Forensic tools are not being used to aid in tracing the perpetrators of terrorist attacks, and rudimentary methodologies to examine crime scenes, etcetera, have just not been developed or standardised," it stated.

Earlier today, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said the report was one sided and did not include his stance. Nisar told reporters in Islamabad that he would be presenting his stance to the Supreme Court and Parliament.

The interior minister added that he was offered to resign over the report, but the prime minister did not accept his resignation.