ISLAMABAD, March 31: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto has condemned, what she said, the lawlessness and mayhem in Tank as the worst example of erosion of the writ of the state.

“The principal of a private school and his brother were kidnapped by militants for refusing to allow the forcible recruitment of schoolchildren in the Jehadi outfits. The next day, militants attacked the city of Tank with mortars and rockets, ransacking government buildings and public and private property.”

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Ms Bhutto said the Tank incident had shown that the regime had miserably failed in establishing the writ of the state in the country and had lost all political and moral right to stay in power.

She said when the peace treaty was signed with the militants in Waziristan on the terms of the extremists, many had expressed apprehensions that it amounted to capitulation before militants and an abdication of state responsibility. —Our Reporter