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Human rights group asks courts to monitor killing probe

ISLAMABAD: Monday, August 23, 2010:

Human rights
group Press For Peace (PFP) on Monday asked Chief Justice Mr. Iftikhar
Choudhary to continuously monitor the investigation of Sialkot killing incident
so the culprits are brought to the justice.

  PFP
considers it an act of revenge the hidden factors of which will come to fore
with passage of time and investigation if made across-the-board”.

PFP Director T H
Shah said in a statement issued here on Monday.

Two teenage
brothers were lynched by mob at the prodding of police officials in Sialkot, a
border district of Pakistan.

However,
government took action after the video of the killing was telecasted in local TV
channels which created public resentment.

 Condemning the
incident Director of Press For Peace (PFP) – a noted watchdog, said that the
brutal and cannibalistic murder of innocent young boys Mughees and Muneeb in
the presence of the crowd of peoples as well as law-enforcing personnel is
‘blot on the Islamic and democratic character of the state of Pakistan’.

 T.H Shah further
said that the killings of two innocent citizens in such a barbaric way could
not be possible without the collusion of political and civil bureaucratic
administration as instead of stopping the culprits on the site, the police
remained as silent spectator and above all, made dilly-dally in registration of
FIR.

 

  

Zafar Iqbal: Zafar Iqbal is a freelance writer, campaigner and educator. He is architect of Press for Peace (http://www.pressforpeace.org.uk/), which works for the promotion of peace and sustainable development in South Asia, raising the voice of deprived communities and focusing gross root peace building and conflict resolution interventions in Himalayan State of Jammu and Kashmir. Being a campaigner he is a passionate and ardent supporter of change in his social and political milieu. As a freelance and independent writer, he contributes to various newspapers and online sources like Eurasia Review, Environmental News Service, Daily The Kashmir Monitor, Media Helping Media etc. He writes on political, environmental and geo-strategic dimensions of contemporary South Asia.
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