Heirs of Sahiwal tragedy meet PM Imran Khan

LAHORE: Heirs of Sahiwal tragedy met Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Wednesday, ARY News reported.

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar was also present in the meeting.

Talking to them, Prime Minister Imran Khan said human lives that have been been lost can never be replaced.

He said government equally shares the grief and sorrow of the families of the victims.

The prime  minister also distributed cheques among the heirs of the victims of Sahiwal tragedy.

Currently the policemen involved in the shady encounter are being trialed in the anti-terrorism court (ATC).

Four people, including two women, were killed in a shady encounter involving the Punjab police’s Counter Terrorism Department on a highway in the Qadirabad area of Sahiwal district on Jan 19.

The prime minister took notice of the incident that caused an outcry across the country. He directed the Chief Minister of Punjab to initiate a probe and take stern action against the people responsible for the incident.

The policemen involved in the incident were detained on instructions of the prime minister and the Home Department of Punjab constituted a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe the incident.

The JIT in its report held the CTD officials, involved in the encounter, responsible for murder of three members of a family, while the probe team declared Zeeshan, the fourth person killed in the firing, a terrorism suspect.

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