Pakistan

CM Punjab announces compensation for blast victims

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced Rs500,000 each for the families of the deceased.

Agencies/express July 02, 2010

LAHORE:

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced Rs500,000 each for the families of the deceased and Rs75,000 each for the injured of the attack on the Data Darbar complex on Friday.

Earlier, President Asif Ali Zardari strongly condemned the attack and expressed deep condolence for the victims' families. He also directed the concerned hospital authorities to ensure provision of the best medical care to those injured in the blasts.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also took strict notice of the blasts, and ordered Interior Minister Rehman Malik to present a detailed report on the attack.

Gilani strongly condemned the attacks, saying: "Terrorists have no consideration for any religion, faith or belief. These terrorists neither respect human values nor care for human lives, and their brutal act is manifestation of their evil designs."

He said he had directed the provincial government and law enforcement agencies to investigate the attack and catch those responsible.

COMMENTS (6)

MMA | 14 years ago | Reply The punjab govt has failed to preotect its people. Look at the number of attacks by terrorists as of late, it is disturbing. Nawaz Sharif and his brother have no business, whatsoever, to be in the government.

M. Irfan Butt | 14 years ago | Reply For Mr. Khadim-e-Ala Punjab Could you please clear the meanings of Khadim-e-Ala Punjab, i think it means the man who serves the people, love the people, create a good atmosphere for people to live safely with their relegion in their relegious places n many responsibilites. But the largest incident / attacks which was done by the terrorists on Religious place of Lahorities, has given very deep wounds on heart / thoughts of lahore people. And Mr. Khadim-e-Ala your entire team never stop the terrorists to attack, they succeed to gave deep wounds on hearts of lahore people (the followers of Sakhi Peer Data Ali Hajveri (R.A)). I love my Sakhi Peer and the attackers couldn't out the love of Sakhi Peer Data (R.A) from my and follower hearts. InshAllah Azawajal. Please Mr. Khadim-e-Ala do something for these deep wounds.

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Zainab Ali | 14 years ago | Reply This compensation in no way will bring back the lost lives; the provincial government should have blocked the entrances to the darbar, if they had the warning sign. The CCTV footage clearly shows the bombers and the guards couldn’t prevent them from blowing themselves up.

MUHAMMAD FAROOQ | 14 years ago | Reply Here i would like to discuss how to tackles the situation like this. we knowed that pakistan have internal & external threats . when we say internal threats it goes to the performance of present governments either federal or Provencal. the federal govt which have a policy to protect corruption & due to this all our economy and financial sectors are under stress & we have to contact IMf to help us but they have very strict policies which leads to kill the poor peoples. Second & main factor is education, without it we can’t process our country. the present federal govt don’t have good education policies and adopt a useless policy to distribute billions amount to their workers under the umbrella of Banazir butto income support program, if we can’t change the living & social life of the Pakistani people than incident like this will happen more in future. Here we need a leader and of course Mian Nawaz Sharif is our leader & I’m sure Mian sb has a quality to control the corruption & confer better education policy so we must strengthen the hands of Mian Nawaz Sharif .

parvez | 14 years ago | Reply Some ten years back I was impressed with Shahbaz Shareef's administrative abilities. Today ten years down the road I wonder what has changed because the same Shahbaz today has "Lost It" he is one big zero and a stone around his brother's (who himself is no genius) neck.

Noman | 14 years ago | Reply Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is not eligible for this post. he should resign

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