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| 1,395 killed in 1,842 terrorist attacked from January to March |
| 2009-04-18 |
| The government failed to table even a single inquiry report in parliament on 1,842 terrorist attacks from January to March that killed at least 1,395 people and causing losses amounting to millions of rupees. Replying to two identical questions by MNAs Marvi Memon and Nighat Parveen, the Interior Ministry told the Lower House on Friday that during first three months of the current year, Balochistan was the worst-hit by terrorism -- with a total of 1,122 terrorist attacks that killed 436 people, followed by NWFP with 692 attacks that killed 732 people, Punjab with 12 attacks that killed 119 people, Sindh with 9 attacks that killed 21 people and Islamabad with 7 attacks that killed 87 people. The ministry provided estimated losses to private properties, but said that losses to public properties, possibly amounted to billions of rupees, had not been calculated yet. The ministry estimated that losses in NWFP amounted to Rs 2,680 million, Rs. 25 million in Balochistan and Rs. 5 million in Sindh. The ministry said the loss of property and vehicles in the terrorist attack on the embassy of Denmark amounted to Rs 12.121 million. The ministry told the House that in Balochistan, compensation cheques handed out to families of police amounted to Rs. 99.5 million, while civilian victims of terrorism had been compensated with Rs 40 million. The administration of Islamabad had paid Rs 27.95 million as compensation, Punjab government Rs 102.92 million, while another Rs. 4.45 million had been sanctioned for disbursement to remaining victims in the province, the House was told. The Sindh government paid Rs 0.67 million to victims of bomb blasts and eight other cases of compensation were being processed. In NWFP, Rs 99.5 million have been paid as compensation to affected policemen and Rs 40 million to civilians. Replying to a supplementary question, Mujtaba Kharral said no inquiry report had been submitted to parliament, but promised that the government would soon table in parliament inquiry reports on all incidents. Replying to a question by Begum Nuzhat Sadiq, the Interior Ministry told the House that a total of 6,007 illegal foreigners were imprisoned in Pakistan during 2008-09. Of these foreigners, 5,087 are in Balochsitan, 678 in Sindh, 80 in NWFP and 162 in Punjab. The ministry said that 162 female foreigners with illegal documents had been arrested over the last three years -- 143 in Sindh, 3 in NWFP, 10 in Balochistan and 6 in Punjab. |
| Posted by:Fred |