Kasur incident JIT be changed, says Wattoo

LAHORE
Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, President PPP Punjab, has urged the government to change the Joint Investigation Team as demanded by the victims’ families of Kasur. He said this in a statement issued on Tuesday adding the trust of the aggrieved parties in the JIT was important to deliver justice in the case like this.
He said the complaints of intimidation and harassment meted out to complainants by the local authorities at the behest of the powerful were both contemptible and condemnable by any measure and the top authorities of the Punjab government should take notice of it immediately. He pointed out that fair investigation of the case of Hussain Khanwala village was critical to award exemplary punishment to the accused. He recalled that he was deeply saddened after meeting the children and their parents during his recent visit to the village because their children had run away from the village and also stopped attending schools due to unbearable social stigma.