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GB Chief Secy, IG suspended after Nanga Parbat attack, Nisar tells NA
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Inspector General Police and Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan have been suspended after Nanga Parbat incident, in which gunmen killed 10 people including nine foreign tourists.
Speaking in the National Assembly, he strongly criticized the apathy on part of security institutions in thwarting such acts of terrorism. He, however, said that there was no question of point scoring.The minister applauded army jawans for their efforts following the incident.
He said that an inquiry would be carried out against the IGP and chief secretary. He told the house that gunmen entered the base camp in security forces’ uniform and gunned down three Chinese, five Ukrainian and a Russian tourist.
Nisar said that a Chinese tourist was recovered from the base camp. “I talked to Chinese ambassador who asked whether Chinese tourists were militants’ target. I told him Pakistan was the target of the attack,” Nisar said. He said that the attack was aimed at giving the message to the world that Pakistan was an insecure country.
The interior minister said that no army personnel would enter the Red Zone in Islamabad without being searched. He said that nobody would have stopped the six terrorists if they had entered the parliament in the army uniform.
Courtesy www.geo.tv