Can’t execute someone at whims, will wait for Sahiwal JIT report: Punjab CM

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has said that he cannot execute the culprits involved in the Sahiwal alleged encounter and the appropriate action will only be taken on the basis of joint investigation team (JIT) report’s findings, Express News reported.

Speaking to the media outside the Punjab Assembly on Monday, he said: “I cannot hang anyone and the proper action would only be taken after receiving the findings of JIT report by 5pm tomorrow.”

On Saturday, four people – including two women – were killed in a shady encounter involving Punjab’s counterterrorism police on a highway in the Qadirabad area of Sahiwal district.

Culprits behind Sahiwal police ‘encounter’ will be taken to task, vows Buzdar

Buzdar also assured the nation that “they will see a visible difference between how the JIT report is acted upon in Naya Pakistan and how JIT reports were treated in the past”.

While lamenting the brutal incident, he said that whatever the action would be taken it would seem to be implemented.

The victims’ children are now the state’s responsibility with all their costs from henceforth to be borne by the government, he added.

On Sunday, the Punjab chief minister had announced that an impartial inquiry would be carried out into the killing of four persons in the ‘police encounter’.

Source: The Express Tribune