ISLAMABAD: Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has expressed concern over increase in the spate of killings of doctors in Karachi.
In a statement Thursday the former prime minister said she was shocked to learn about the murder of yet another specialist doctor in Karachi, ENT surgeon Dr Anwarul Islam, on Tuesday night.
"While these senseless killings are most condemnable, equally deplorable is the apathy and inability o the regime to control it.”
The PPP leader recalled that since February last as many as twenty-five innocent people had been killed in Karachi and Rawalpindi alone in targeted killings and said that this had heightened the sense of insecurity among the people throughout the country.
She deplored that the regime's bid to control deteriorating law and order was matched only by increase in sectarian and mass and targeted killings. The doctors in Karachi have now threatened to go on strike to protest against the regime's inability to protect their lives and property.
Benazir Bhutto recalled that during the PPP government the insurgency and sectarianism had been brought under control and the lives and property of people protected by the state.
The former premier said that it served no purpose to lay the blame for mass and targeted killings on external forces. Law and order is the responsibility of the state, which must be vigilant of both internal and external elements bound to exploit what essentially is the weakness of the regime, she said.
The PPP leader also expressed her sense of shock and grief over the death of mill workers in an accident on Tuesday. Five mill workers were killed and seven others sustained injuries in an accident on Faisalabad-Chak Jhumra Road in the Punjab on Tuesday.
The former prime minister also asked the regime to give compensation to the poor families of the workers who were killed or injured in the accident.