Parents threaten sit-in outside parliament,demand judicial commission

PESHAWAR: The Shuhada Forum of the Army Public School (APS) tragedy on Saturday threatened to stage protest sit-in outside the Parliament if a judicial commission was not formed to investigate the 16/12 carnage. Speaking at a news conference at the press club, president of the Shuhada Forum, a body formed by the parents of the children killed in the APS attack on December 16, 2014, Abid Raza Bangash, coordinator Mehwish Tariq, Kiran Sardar, Andaleep Aftab and others said that five months had passed, but still the perpetrators of the brazen attack have not been brought to justice.
Abid Raza Bangash said that PM Nawaz Sharif should order judicial probe into the incident. The parents’ representatives said that the PTI chief Imran Khan had promised that he would plead the case of the amartyred schoolchildren, but he had forgotten his pledge.
They called upon the government to probe the killing of the innocent schoolchildren on priority basis to bring the accused to justice. They said the heirs of the staff members killed in the gory incident were being compensated, but the government stopped the process due to unknown reasons.
It may be added that almost 150 persons, including 135 schoolchildren, were killed in the terrorist attack on the army-run school claimed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).