Bilawal Bhutto demands judicial inquiry into the Murree tragedy

Islamabad: Chair Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded to constitute a judicial commission for probe into the Murree tragedy.

Speaking in the National Assembly, Chairman Bilawal said that we are saddened for the innocent children and their parents who lost their lives just at a distance of only 2 hours from the capital of the country, Islamabad. He reminded the House that just two years ago, when the sister of the prime minister was stranded in severe weather in Chitral, she was rescued by a helicopter. Chairman PPP said that she should have been saved and these common people should have been saved as well.

Chairman PPP said that a minister via his message on social media was rejoicing at the hundreds and thousands flocking in Murree as well as boasting about an economic upturn. The same minister after the tragedy on via social media started blaming the people that they did not check the weather forecast before going to Murree. This is hypocrisy of the highest order. Victim blaming those who have suffered from a tragedy is the forte of the prime minister and his ministers. We all remember when the Hazaras of Quetta were mourning with the dead bodies of their dear ones and demanding of the prime minister to come to them, the prime minister had said that he will not be blackmailed. Now, he has said that the stranded people should have gone to Murree after checking the weather forecast instead of using every government resource to save the precious lives.

Chairman Bilawal said that every essential commodity has become expensive while the lives of the people have become cheap in Pakistan. He said that the government forming a committee to investigate the Murree tragedy will be injustice to the people. He supported the demand by the opposition leader, Shahbaz Sharif to form a judicial commission to investigate this tragedy so that all the responsible must be brought to justice.