The lawmakers said in a debate made in the session of the Balochistan Assembly over the targeted killing of a religious scholar and his son in Turbat that the incident increased sense of insecurity. Lawmakers demanded of the authorities concerned to bring the culprits involved in the killing to justice. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl's MPA, Molvi Ma'azallah Musakhel tabled the adjournment motion which reads that unknown men martyred Mufti Ahtashamul Haque and his young son, Maulana Shabbir Ahmed by opening firing on them in broad daylight.
The incident created anger and concern among masses and made people of Balochistan victim of sense of insecurity, it said. It further said that incidents of deteriorating situation of law and order situation, massacre of innocent people and kidnapping for ransom have become routine in the province. It demanded debate on the issue of law and order. Participating in the debate, JUI-F MPA, Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran said that a peaceful religious scholar and his son were made victims of targeted killings.