June 11, 2003	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 10, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, June 10: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has condemned the killing of police trainees in Quetta.

PPP Senator Enver Baig in a statement said the killing of 15 police cadets in Quetta on Sunday, followed by the murder of the deputy inspector-general of police, Sibbi, and four other policemen on Monday was most reprehensible and condemnable in the strongest terms.

He said: “The incident shows the resentment, bordering on hatred, towards the uniformed state functionaries — a gift of the military regime and a natural corollary of the stubbornness of the junta to refuse to subordinate itself to the civil and parliamentary authority.

“The brutal killings are a challenge thrown by the criminals and terrorists that they have the strength and capacity to strike at anytime, anywhere and anyone without the regime being able to do anything.

“The murder of law enforcement personnel also is a proof of the utter failure of the government of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, which has lost its moral justification to stay in office.

“Never before the resentment against uniformed personnel was so great as it is today. This resentment will continue to grow and manifest itself in more deadly ways if the regime insists on militarizing the state institutions and the society itself.

“It is instructive to ponder that when a regime obstructs the parliamentarians from entering parliament, the journalists from entering the press galleries and the lawyers from entering the Supreme Court building, it signals the abdication of its responsibilities and leaves the field open to criminals and terrorists.

He called upon the regime to “immediately stop the victimization of the civil society by reinstating the supremacy of parliament and the Constitution.”

Meanwhile, Islami Tehrik Pakistan (ITP) Chief Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi while expressing concern over the recent incidents in Balochistan said the government had no control over law and order in the country.

The ITP chief, who is also the central vice president of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, said the terrorists had been targeting innocent people, falsifying the claims of the federal and provincial governments that every thing was okay.