DADU: Sindh Minister for Health Dr Sikandar Mandhro has said a member of the Dadu district council, who was being held and interrogated by law-enforcement agencies in connection with the suicide blast at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine, would be punished if found guilty.

He told journalists after inaugurating a free eye camp organised by a welfare trust at Dadu civil hospital on Friday that all culprits involved in the terrorist act would be awarded exemplary punishment.

He said the Sindh and federal governments, Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police and other law-enforcement agencies concerned were probing threadbare the shrine blast. The terrorist plan was organised by elements that were controlled by their foreign bosses, he said.

In answer to a question, he said that Pakistan Army and law-enforcement agencies were highly capable of tackling terrorism. The nation was united in the fight against terrorism, he said.

The minister assured families of blast victims that all facilities would be provided to patients and the government hospitals and Sehwan trauma centre would soon be equipped with required equipment, instruments, beds and ambulances.

He said that 6,000 doctors would be appointed soon to end shortage of doctors in government hospitals.

Published in Dawn, February 25th, 2017