PPP demands list of Bajaur air strikes victims

One of the main Opposition parties in Pakistan, the PPP has demanded of the government to publish the list of people killed in last Monday's air strikes on a madarassa in Bajaur Agency.

The party said that only such a list could belie the tribesmen's claim of death of innocent teenagers in the attack.

"To put at rest the speculations that innocent teenagers were killed in Bajaur air raid, the regime should publish the names and addresses of those killed," The News quoted PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar as saying.

He said: "If the regime is so sure that all the 83 people killed in the attack on the Madrassah were terrorists, it must, at least, have known the names and addresses of the would-be terrorists and suicide bombers."

Publication of the lists would also extinguish the anxieties of the families of those trapped in Bajaur Agency, as the area has been sealed after the strike, allowing neither entry nor exit from it, he said.

Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto demanded an independent probe into the incident that the targets were not terrorists, but innocent people.

The publication of the list is the first crucial step in undertaking a bi-partisan parliamentary probe as demanded by Benazir Bhutto, Babar added. (ANI)

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