Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Board of Governors, Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF), Barrister Amjad Malik Tuesday condemned attack on police training centre at Quetta in the strongest words, saying, “Terrorist Enemy is not bigger than the resolve of Pakistani nation to fight this menace”.

In a statement issued here, he said,” Our heart goes out for the victims of Quetta police training centre. Attack on Police training centre Quetta reflect what kind of war Pakistan is fighting inside and outside Pakistan”.

Terrorism was a menace and national drive was required to discourage deter and defeat it, he added.

He said National Action Plan (NAP) was aim of the drive against outlawed extremists, proscribed organisations and individuals who were sympathisers financiers and supporters and masterminds of terrorist attacks.

Zarb-e-Azb was the actual translation of state commitment against terrorist elements, he added.

After loss of lawyers, he said, yet another attack in Quetta depicts that enemies of state were in action and they were  warning and claiming ownership of such attacks to destabilise Pakistan’s progress on China Pakistan Economic Corridor and Gwadar projects especially in Balochistan.

“Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) are already mindful of the challenges confronted by state and I expect that best arrangements will be made to aide relieve and assist those victims and their families who lost their lives in the line of duty and those injured”, he said.

“Our heart goes for those who lost their loved ones as those trainers who came to train in Quetta police training centre lost their lives in national cause and may their souls rest in peace”, he said.