A day after three members of a family were allegedly killed during a shootout between the Counter-Terrorism Department and suspected terrorists near Sahiwal, Prime Minister Imran Khan promised that “swift action” would be taken against those found responsible for wrongdoing.
In what law enforcers described as an encounter with terrorists, the elite Punjab police on Saturday killed four people, including parents and their teenage daughter, sending shock waves across the country as one of the three surviving children who were witness to the episode denied the official version in a video that went viral on social media.
Prime Minister Khan took to Twitter on Sunday to recognise the CTD’s “great job in [the] fight against terrorism”, but stated that “everyone must be accountable before the law”.
“As soon as the joint investigation team report comes, swift action will be taken,” he vowed. “The government’s priority is protection of all its citizens.”
He added: “Still shocked at seeing the traumatised children who saw their parents shot before their eyes. Any parent would be shocked as they would think of their own children in such a traumatic situation. These children will now be fully looked after by the state as its responsibility.”
