UK-PAK LAWYERS CONDEMN TERRORIST ATTACKS AT PINDI MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN

UK-PAK LAWYERS CONDEMN TERRORIST ATTACKS AT PINDI MOSQUE IN PAKISTAN, AND DECALRED THAT TERRORISTS HAVE NO RELIGION
 
Association of Pakistani Lawyers a team of Pakistani origin lawyers, Solicitors, Barristers, Judges in UK jointly condemn the terrorist attacks of 4 December 2009
at Parade Lane Mosque near Qasim Market, in Rawalpindi where Forty persons have been martyred, including children, and over 80 are injured until last reports   affecting hundreds of families who lost their loved one’s creating more terror and uncertainty in the violence rid capital twin city of Pakistan .
 
APL expressed their condolences and declared said that their thoughts are with those who lost their lives and the security force officials who fought bravely to avert further causalities. APL further declared that these terrorist have no religion, but are criminals who must be crushed jointly with their master minds.
 
APL noted that recent events in Pakistan including the ever growing number of suicidal attacks i.e over 80 in 2007 & over 68 in 2008, and a sharp increase in suicide missions in 2009 prompt some serious questions of the ever-growing threat of radicalisation in Pakistan and the ever-widening gulf between liberals and theologians, trends which can also be seen in the UK. These developments are alarming and the country needs a massive international support  at this very moment.
 
APL believes that core issues needs to be dealt with as addressing of those core issues will ultimately snatch the ammunition from the mouth of terrorist masters and hidden hands behind those pawns who use hate, and injustice on international front which act as a breeding ground to perpetrate and indoctrine poor and young to effect horrific and deadly attacks.
 
APL still believes that Simple democracy with justice and aid packages where education and social infrastructure is built with vigour can solve half of the problems in the tribal areas in Pakistan. Some sort of a political process and peace is the key to bring calm in the region and sooner those who make policies without visiting the region understands it, the better it will be for the country in question, the region and the world in return. The west must play its role to ensure in the new US AF-PAK  policy for the stoppage of spill over effect(s) in Pakistan of troops increase & insurgency in Afghanistan, and if it is not checked earlier, it has a potential capacity to destabilise the atomic power in return the region and the world. West and Pakistan must jointly check the foreign interference in Pakistani areas and must avert international proxies fuelling and funding the criminal elements which is fatal to the joint collaboration against AL-Qaeda.
 
APL demands that a fair assessment of the situation must take place to pin point intelligence gathering, sharing and disposal to those who are on the ground to understand it to check such attacks in near future and a thorough investigation to bring the perpetrators of such heinous crimes to books. It is also vital that those who master mind it and are behind it, and those who are arrested must be brought to task as only that can calm the bereaved families especially of those martyred who lost their loved ones today.
 
Amjad Malik,
Chair APL (Association of Pakistani Lawyers- UK)
With the approval of its Executive Committee