 A Human Rights Commission of Pakistan team on its way to Dera Bugti was shot at by suspected security agencies personnel on Sunday, HRCP Chairperson Asma Jahangir told Daily Times. The aim of the attack was to prevent the HRCP team from visiting the area to investigate any human rights abuses in the government offensive against militant tribesmen in Balochistan, Ms Jahangir said.
| Whereas the aim turned out to be a demonstration of the rights of good people to own arms and use them against miscreants. |
According to the government, Ms Jahangir’s car was targeted by ‘miscreants’ and was escorted to safety by security forces. Ms Jahangir denied this vehemently. She said Afrasiab Khattak, former HRCP chairman, left Multan for Sui on Sunday. They were accompanied by journalists in a separate car. The cars were photographed from Multan to DG Khan by what appeared to be security personnel, Ms Jahangir said. As the convoy approached the Balochistan border, a man pointed a torch at HRCP officials’ car and then two gunmen sprayed bullets around the car, not actually hitting it. The driver reversed the car. The journalists’ car was untouched. |