The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on April 19, strongly condemned the brutal murder of at least 14 people near Ormara, Balochistan, including 11 security personnel, who were shot dead by gunmen while traveling from Karachi to Gwadar, reports Daily Times. The HRCP said in a statement that it was “shocked at the calculated way in which these passengers were identified by their identity cards, forcibly offloaded from buses by gunmen impersonating security personnel, and killed in cold blood”.
“It is not enough that these organisations are banned or that the state has expressed its outrage and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. Nor is it acceptable to mark this down to what the provincial home minister has termed ‘external elements’,” read the statement.