Islamabad: Terming the May 9 “the blackest day in the country’s history”, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said planners and abettors of the violent incidents of 9th May should be brought to justice.
Chairing meeting of the National Security Committee in Islamabad today, he said the culprits should be taken to task to set an example so that no one can dare repeat such incidents in future.
The Prime Minister said he has directed that innocent people should not be touched but culprits involved in these heinous crimes should not be spared even if chief executive of the country seeks any leniency for them.
Shehbaz Sharif said these acts of vandalism are not less than terrorism, which have brought shame to the entire nation.
He said goons of a political party attacked military installations, including the General Headquarters Rawalpindi, FC Camp in Quetta, and other public property.
The Prime Minister said today’s meeting expressed that the entire nation is standing behind their armed forces.
The meeting was attended by provincial chief ministers, federal ministers, Services Chiefs and others.
Millions of Pakistanis, he said, were upset on what happened on May 9 and they were demanding to hold all planners and instigators of the attack on security installations and historic buildings like the Jinnah House in Lahore, accountable.
The NSC meeting expressed solidarity with the Pakistan armed forces, strongly condemned the violent incidents and vowed to bring all culprits to justice without victimizing the innocent people.
The prime minister said in the last meeting, he had directed the authorities concerned to register first information reports against the culprits involved in the incidents and arrest them within 72 hours.
PM Shehbaz said the Jinnah House that was burnt and destroyed by the miscreants was the abode of the valour troops who were busy in safeguarding the nation from its enemy.
“When I visited the house after the incidents, the scenes were beyond imagination as it was totally burnt and destroyed,” he added.
Shehbaz Sharif said the miscreants had inflicted damage to the country which its arch enemy could not do even during the last 75 years. Such heart breaking events had never been witnessed in the country’s history, he added.
He said the 220 million people of Pakistan and the government were united to condemn such incidents in the strongest terms and stood behind the armed forces.
He vowed that the criminals, who burnt and tarnished government properties, damaged the relics of the Pakistan armed forces and marched on the office of ISI in Faisalabad would not be spared.
“I have asked the relevant authorities that even if the prime minister asks them to spare them, they must not obey him and act according to the law,” he added.
