PML-N condemns Murree incident

Published August 7, 2002

ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) while condemning the terrorist attack on a missionary school in Murree has expressed sympathy with the families of the victims.

The PML-N spokesman said, in a statement issued here on Tuesday, the attack was a part of the conspiracy hatched to malign Pakistan. He said the involvement of the enemies of Pakistan could not be ruled out.

“The government agencies has failed to check such incidents of terrorism,” he deplored. Recalling a similar attack on a church in Bahawalpur, the spokesman said the authorities failed to trace the real culprits and added that the four suspects picked up by the police were later mysteriously killed in a fake encounter.

APP ADDS: The Society for Protection of Rights of the Child (SPARC) has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a missionary school in Murree on Monday.

The society urged the government to take all possible steps to ensure security arrangements to forestall such incidents.

A press release said all forms of terrorism were crime against humanity.

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