ISLAMABAD: The foreign office on Wednesday submitted its report to
National Assembly body on Kharotabad incident which revealed that all
deceased person were innocent.
The deceased Russian men and women had no link with any terrorist outfit and had no criminal record, report said.
The deceased persons were not involved in any terrorist activity either in Pakistan or in their homeland, it said.
Report also said that Russian government confirmed issuing passports to its citizens for travel to Pakistan.
Police and Frontier Crop personnel shot and killed 4 Russian and 1 Tajik citizen including 3 women on May 20 this year.
Initially
police and FC claimed that persistently only identified the five as
Chechens, indicated that they were suicide bombers that were in
possession of grenades and explosives and that they had hurled grenades
at police checkpoint.
Later inquiry commission headed by a
judge of Balochistan High Court reported that deceased foreigners were
not terrorist and commission also suggested punishments for security
personnel involved in that incident. Online
