Extremism: WPP demands action

Workers’ Party Pakistan slammed government’s inability to prevent a virtual breakdown of the law and order apparatus

ISLAMABAD:

The attack on two female professors of Sindh University in Hyderabad was condemned in a statement issued by the Workers’ Party Pakistan (WPP) on Friday.

The party slammed the government’s inability to prevent a virtual breakdown of the law and order apparatus and demanded action against extremists.

Targeted attacks against human rights activists continue unabated with the state’s security apparatus standing idly by, said WPP. In such a situation, WPP leaders said the question arises why banned organisations are allowed to operate with impunity and conduct long marches to the capital.

WPP warned that both renegade and official elements acting with total impunity have now become the biggest threats to the lives and rights of people.

WPP president Abid Hasan Minto and Information Secretary Aasim Sajjad said a mountain of evidence has been presented in the Supreme Court implicating state agencies in the abduction and murder of ordinary people in Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and elsewhere, yet no decisive action has been taken to reign them.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2012.