KARACHI, Nov 16: Idara Amn-o-Insaf (Committee for Justice and Peace) has condemned the attacks on churches and damage to private properties at Sangla Hills and called for a probe into the sad incident.

A meeting of the committee held here questioned the role of local police, saying that the police were duly informed about the ongoing tension and a request for protection was made much before the incident, but it did not play any role.

A resolution adopted at the meeting says “the local police seem to be party in the acts of terror.”

It deplored the tendency using religion for hatred against the religious minorities and urged that an immediate judicial inquiry be made to establish the causes and fix responsibility for “these shameful incidents.”

The committee also called for publication of a judicial inquiry report into the carnage at Shanti Nagar in 1997 and demanded that those responsible be brought to justice.

The resolution says that blasphemy laws are the main causes and tools for creating social, sectarian and inter-religious disharmony in the country and it urged the government to take effective steps to educate masses about tolerance and peace and remove religious biases in the syllabus, media policy and repeal discriminatory laws.