KARACHI, Oct 22: While condemning Thursday’s midnight attack on Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade, the Women’s Commission for Peace has demanded a judicial probe into the incident. In a press release issued here on Monday, the commission also suggested the government establish a desk in all the hospitals where the wounded are being treated to monitor their needs (medicines, food, clothing and rehabilitation treatment).

“This is the foremost responsibility of the political party concerned and the state,” it said, while urging political parties to ask their workers to exercise restraint in the aftermath of the bomb blasts. Seeking a judicial probe into the incident, the commission said, “While bullet-proof vehicles were provided to the leadership, the common people were exposed to death and injury. The leadership is urged to share the insecurity with their workers and common man and the state should live up to their responsibility to protect its citizens with people-centric policies,” it said.

Besides, the peace body urged the PPP and the government to prepare and make public a brief profile of the victims of the Oct 18 tragedy.Stressing the fact all those who lost their lives or were injured in the assassination bid were either political workers or policemen, it urged the state and PPP leadership to help bomb blasts victims in their rehabilitation.