(ATTOCK – PR – AUGUST 16, 2015) Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and its Chairman Engineer Jameel Ahmad Malik strongly condemned the suicidal attack on the Punjab Home Minister Col (R) Shuja Khanzada and others innocent peoples today at his home in Shadi Khan near Attock City in which Col Shuja and others were martyred and several were injured.
Col Shuja was a brave son of Illaqa Chhachh and he would be remembered forever for his bravery for fighting against the religious terrorists in Chhachh and all over the country. He was a straight forward, honest and well respected politician within Chhachh and in Attock District. It is a great loss for Punjab Government and Pakistan.
Engineer Jameel expressed deep concern and sympathy with the families of Col Shuja, DSP Hazro Shaukat Shah and all others who were martyred and injured in the suicide blast.
According to reports, a jirga (open court) was underway at Khanzada’s political office in his native Shadi Khan village when the suicide attacker detonated his explosives. The blast caused the roof of the building to collapse under which the provincial home minister was trapped for several hours and ultimately martyred.
“There was between 20 and 30 people present when the blast took place,” district information officer Shahzad Niaz told Reuters. “The roof collapsed.”
DSP Hazro Shaukat Shah and other innocent’s peoples were also martyred and some were injured and taken to the nearby hospitals.
“From the evidence available, it seems that it was a suicide blast,” the CPP Chairman vehemently stressed.
Relatives and close acquaintances said Khanzada had recently been facing death threats and was usually accompanied by his security squad. However, the security squad was not with the provincial home minister today when the bomber attacked his political office near his residence.
Shuja Khanzada was given charge of the home department in Oct 2014. The home minister had recently claimed that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s feared leader Malik Ishaq had been taken down under the National Action Plan, a statement that seemingly went unnoticed in the press and was contradictory to the police’s statement that the dreaded terror chief and his close aides, including his two sons had been killed by firing of their own colleagues during an attempt to rescue him from police custody in Muzafffarabad last month.
