May 13, 2008	Tuesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 7, 1429

KARACHI, May 12: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that nobody can forget the incidents of May 12, 2007, and declared that the government would impartially investigate the matter through an independent judicial commission if the police failed to do so.

Talking to newsmen after attending Quran Khwani at the People’s Secretariat for the May 12 martyrs on Monday, he said the previous government had done nothing in this regard, but his party, despite not being in power at that time, had compensated the victims’ families.

“I was present on May 12, 2007 on Sharea Faisal and saw all the incidents and the free movement of assailants,” he said.

“But today as the chief executive of Sindh, I cannot lodge an FIR and probe myself. However, I would testify, if needed.”—PPI