"We have taken action against these coppers and removed them from service in the light of recommendation from the inquiry tribunal of the Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
High Court," Ahsan Mehboob, Quetta police chief, told AFP.
"The court, in its recommendation, held these coppers responsible for negligence that caused the tragic incident in which five foreigners, including three women, one of whom was pregnant, were killed," Mehboob said.
On May 17, police and paramilitary from the Frontier Corps opened fire on the group, claiming they were jacket wallahs who attacked a checkpoint in Kharotabad on the outskirts of Quetta.
A subsequent judicial commission found that the Tajik and four Russians, three of them women, were unarmed.
It accused former city police chief Daud Junejo and Frontier Corps Colonel Faisal Shehzad of incompetence. Junejo has since been pushed into retirement, but Shehzad remains in the job.