‘Traitors’ proved right after 15 years: Asma

ISLAMABAD: Well-known human rights activist and former President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jeghangir on Monday said that those who are saying that Indian intelligence agency RAW was involved in the recent Quetta carnage, they should cross the border and apprehend the Indian Premier Narendra Modi.

She was talking to reporters at the office of Press Association of Supreme Court reporters (PAS) after attending a protest demonstration of lawyers community against the federal and Balochistan governments for failing to meet the bar council’s deadline of August 19 to arrest the perpetrators of the Quetta hospital attack.

She said that the lawyers cannot catch the Indian premier but those saying that RAW was involved in the recent Quetta carnage, they should cross the border and apprehend the Indian Premier Narendra Modi 

“People like us are being called as traitors but whatever, the traitors had said earlier, their assumptions were proved right after 15 years, so we should learn the lesson from the past,” Asma Jehangir said.

She said that Mehmood Khan Achakzai was right in his demand on the floor of the House from the intelligence agencies to unmask the real culprit behind the Quetta blast.

Asma Jehangir further said that Parliament should raise this issue, saying that we are not Iraq or Libya but have a democratic system. She questioned as to whether the civilian are terrorists, adding that neither a single civilian killed in the incidents of terrorism was paid any tribute nor saluted so far.

"You have established the Jehad Industry and you will also eliminate it as well," Asma said without naming anyone. She said that the lawyers of Quetta told her that they even cannot say that the security agencies have failed in the recent Quetta carnage but you could only speak out. They further told her that they even cannot utter by saying as to who should be held responsible for the brutal terrorist attack, she added.

She said that there was a great difference between the situation of Indian-Held Kashmir and Balochistan, adding that in the IHK, severe human rights violation were being made and the people of Kashmir were demanding their right of self determination and protesting over the Indian atrocities whereas here in Balochistan, the people were seeking peace and their due rights. She said that how much the people of Quetta were in deep grief and shock these days in the wake of terrorist attack, people in other parts of the country could not think about it.

The former SCBA president, while reply to a question regarding the statement of Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) that the Quetta attack was an attempt to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and undermine the improving security situation in Balochistan, said that the lawyers community was not against the CPEC and has nothing to do with the construction work. She said that the ISPR should not have issued such an irresponsible statement as it could invigorate the terrorists.