Jail grenade recovery probe

Though initially the jail authority tried to pass it off as a grenade hurled in from outside, it did not sound plausible at that time, it still doesn't. What's more alarming is the fact the government does not seem willing to divulge any details of progress made in the probe which was initiated a long time back. The State Minister for Home Affairs, Lutfuzzaman Babar has categorically said, the government, at the moment, doesn't want to divulge whether they found anything or not out of the probe, for the sake of smooth investigation. But as citizens of the country, don't we have the right to know at least how long the probe will continue and what if anything has been found well into the second month of the probe? More significantly, since some intelligence and police sources said that there were some 'alarming information' discovered during the probe, we demand to know what these are?

We understand that some of the information might be classified and sensitive, but why can't we be taken into confidence with the rest of the information since it concerns our safety and security. The procrastination can be explained in two ways, either the government has no clue on how the grenade was smuggled inside the jail and who did it or the vested quarters are trying to scuttle the probe. We hope the government would expedite the probe to allay all misgivings. Let it not pass into oblivion like many others.

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