Father of martyred student moves PHC

APS carnage

PESHAWAR: The father of a victim of the Army Public School (APS) attack has moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to seek directions for the government to make public all information and actions taken against the officials concerned in the December 2014 carnage.Ajoon Khan, a lawyer and father of Asfand Khan, one of the martyred students, filed the writ petition in the PHC.

The federal government through Ministry of Interior, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government through chief secretary, secretary Home and Tribal Affairs, additional chief secretary Fata, inspector general of police and National Counter-Terrorism Authority through its director are respondents in the petition.

The petitioner raised several questions, including why the prior threat to the APS was not communicated to the students and their parents, why necessary action was not taken to forestall the attack and why the administration did not protect the four walls of the school.

Ajoon Khan also said the negligent officials should be exposed and after the incident what action the administration has taken to fix the responsibility for the criminal negligence.

He said it was the fundamental rights of the students of the school and parents and duty of the school administration to inform them regarding the threats given by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The petitioner stated that he along with all other families of the victims have been asking the respondents to inform them as to why the information of the attack was not communicated to them.

The petitioner claimed that he had also raised these questions before the president, Chairman Senate Defence Committee Mushahid Hussain Sayed and chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but he did not receive any answer from them and it seems everybody is ignoring the questions.