Former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has expressed grave concern over the roughing up of a former army officer and his family by a serving military officer using the clout and muscle of an intelligence agency over a petty play filed dispute among school going children and demanded an inquiry into the incident.
In a statement on Friday, the former Prime Minister shocked over the reports that following a petty playground dispute between minor and teenagers, including reportedly the son of a senior officer of an intelligence agency in Islamabad last week two cavalcades of official vehicles bearing green number plates and carrying sleuths of an intelligence agency ransacked several houses in the neighbourhood before kidnapping a retired Brigadier, his daughter in law and a grandson. The raiders were led by a serving army major.
She said that she was shocked beyond measure over this display of lawlessness by serving officials. Ms Bhutto demanded the holding of a parliamentary inquiry into the incident over the gross abuse of office and disciplinary action against all those involved.
She also demanded that the name of the senior officer in the Agency at whose behest a former military officer and his family were publicly humiliated should also be disclosed besides punishing him severely.
She said the issue will not die down easily and will be agitated at different forums until justice is done to the aggrieved families both civilians and ex-service men.
She warned that any attempt to cover up the incident behind any other pretext would not succeed. She said in the case of Tando Bahawal incident in 1992 also the bid to cover up was foiled by the relentless pursuit of the gory incident by free media.
The former Prime Minister also urged human rights bodies to raise their voice against the shameful conduct on the part of intelligence agency.
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