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Justice Kakar leads Quetta tragedy probe

QUETTA – Balochistan government on Saturday appointed Balochistan High Court judge, Justice Muhammad Hashim Kakar to lead a judicial tribunal to investigate Kharotabad incident.
Provincial Home Secretary Zafarullah Baloch told newsmen that after approval of Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, the notification of constituting a judicial tribunal headed by Justice Muhammad Hashim Kakar had been issued.
He said that tribunal would investigate Kharotabad incident and after examining its all aspects would prepare its report which would be presented to the provincial government. In the light of report action would be taken against responsible, he added.
Zafarullah said the tribunal would present its report within two weeks, however, if more time was required it could be given.
When asked about handing over the bodies of the Chechens, he said no one had so far requested for the same.
Five suspected Chechen, including three women were killed by firing of police and Frontier Corps in Kharotabad, in the outskirts of Quetta on May 17. Many questions were raised by media and residents of the area following their killings, upon which provincial government decided to constitute a judicial tribunal to investigate the incident.
Meanwhile, the bomb disposal squad of Balochistan Police declared Saturday that no suicide jacket or explosives were recovered from the bodies of all five Chechens, three of them women, killed in firing by police and Frontier Corps on May 17.
Submitting its report to the Inspector General of Balochistan here on Saturday BDS claimed that two safety levers of hand grenade were found close to the bodies and one of the two men was wearing the ring carrying safety pin of hand grenade.
The report did not mention the site of the blast caused by hand grenade or any splinter of the hand grenade. However, it declared that when the three-member team of bomb disposal squad reached the site, it found five bodies lying close to FC checkpost in the middle of the round about who were killed by FC and police personnel.

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