A day after nine people were shot dead in Noshki, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Sunday chaired a high-level on law and order where it was decided that the province’s security plan would be revised to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.
Nine people were shot dead in Balochistan in the small hours of Saturday. The gunmen abducted them from a Taftan-bound bus based on their ethnicity and dumped their bodies under a bridge in a hilly area of Noshki. A spokesperson for the banned Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the killings.
On Sunday, Bugti chaired a meeting in Quetta on law and order in the province. A statement by the Chief Minister’s Secretariat said that Balochistan Inspector General Abdul Khaliq Sheikh, Chief Secretary Balochistan Shakeel Qadir Khan and other senior civil and military officers attended the meeting.
The attendees strongly condemned the attack and reviewed the law and order situation in the province. The meeting decided to comprehensively revise the security plan to prevent similar incidents in the future, the statement said.
“This war against terrorism is not only for security forces,” the statement quoted Bugti as saying. “This war against the enemies of peace is state’s war,” he said.
“Politicians, civil armed forces, bureaucracy, judiciary, [and] media all have to fight this war,” he said. He vowed to “fight this war against terrorism with political responsibility and a common plan of action”.
He also instructed to ensure that compensation was given to the heirs of those killed within seven days. On Saturday, Bugti had said the government would revive the security checkpoints on national highways to protect passengers.
