Pakistan | NAP Pak govt has no right to pardon those who killed APS School children: Asif Ali Zardari
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman and former Pak president Asif Ali Zardari expressed concerns over the non-implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism and said the state had no right or authority to pardon the killers of the innocent children who had died in 2014 Peshwar school massacre.
“The National Action Plan was a pledge to wipe out terrorists from the country. Unfortunately, the promise made to the nation has not been fulfilled which has resulted in terrorists killing our soldiers even today,” Zardari was quoted as saying by Dawn News in a message on the seventh anniversary of the APS tragedy falling on Thursday.
Paying his tributes to the 'martyrs', Zardari said that as long as the killers, planners and their facilitators were not brought to justice, “the state and the nation will remain indebted to the martyrs”.
“The hearts of not only the families of the martyrs but also of every conscientious human being are still bleeding,” he added.
On Dec 16 in 2014, militants from the Pakistani Taliban attacked the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, killing at least 141 people, including 132 children.
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