Says culprits could not escape from clutches of law
Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Humans Resource Development, Sajid Hussain Turi on Monday said that May 9 vandalism had exposed the evil face of the attackers and elements involved in the ransacking of national installations could not escape from the law. He strongly condemned the ransacking of public, government and defence installations on May 9 and10 vandalism and said that the burning of Radio Pakistan Peshawar’s historic building showed that the attackers had “no regard for cultural heritage and media”.
He expressed these views during his visit to the burnt building of Radio Pakistan Peshawar and expressed solidarity with employees of the national broadcaster and Associated Press of Pakistan Corporation. Sajid Turi said the ransacking and burning of Radio Pakistan Peshawar, Jinnah House Lahore and defence installations on May 9-10 exposed the barbaric mindsets of the rioters.
He said that former president Asif Ali Zardari had raised the slogan of “Pakistan Khapay” after the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed in 2007 and PPP had always raised the national flag sky high. The federal minister said the destruction and damages of the May 9 vandalism were beyond immigration and the culprits could not escape from the clutches of law.
He said Radio Pakistan Peshawar was a historic station established on March 6, 1935, from where the announcement of Pakistan’s independence was aired on midnight of August 13-14, 1947. Sajid Turi said he would talk to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto about the devastations caused to the Radio Pakistan Peshawar’s building.
