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Judicial probe ordered into Abbotabad violence: Iftikhar
PESHAWAR: Expressing grief over poor law and order situation and loss of human lives in Abbotabad, NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has ordered a judicial probe into the violent incidents.
Addressing a news conference here on Monday, he said those who are doing politics on dead bodies would be unmasked.
“We want a democratic solution to the problem and are ready for talks,” he said.
He urged the leaders of demonstrators to form a team to hold talks with the provincial government and called upon them to maintain calm in the restive area.
To a question, the provincial minister asked why the intensity of protests was so high in Abbotabad. “Why the protest was not lodged at the time when NWFP name was under consideration,” he pondered.
He called on people, PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and other national leaders to restore peace.
Massive protest demonstrations are underway in Hazara belt against the renaming of NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for the last one-week.
Five people were killed and several others injured after police opened firing on the violent demonstrators on Monday morning in Abbotabad.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv