ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: Pakistan People’s Party has condemned the killing of five tenants at the hands of Rangers and police in Okara on Saturday.

PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar, in a statement on Sunday, demanded of the regime to come out clean on the Saturday’s shooting and punish those who had vandalized and killed villagers only because the poor were demanding their rights. “The PPP stands by these poor tenants and condemns the use of brute might of state to dislodge them.”

The spokesman said it was intriguing that the incident had occurred on a day when a US newspaper had published a list of over 100 armed forces men, each of whom had allotted himself over 400 acres of prime agricultural land in the Okara, Renal Khurd, Lahore, Sargodha, Khanewal and other districts of Punjab and Sindh, creating a new breed of uniformed landlords. The PPP demanded that fact be made public.

It demanded evenhanded accountability of those responsible.—Reporter