
A tribunal headed by Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar of the Balochistan High Court submitted on Tuesday its report on the Kharotabad incident of May 17 in which five foreigners, three of them women, were killed by security personnel, but the provincial government has decided not to make it public. According to sources, the government observed after going through the report that recommendations made by the judicial tribunal could not be fully implemented. “The entire recommendations cannot be implemented because the foreigners had entered Pakistan illegally,” an official said. He said the security personnel had acted in self-defence and the foreigners did not have visas to enter Pakistan. They had entered the country illegally and they were terrorists, the official insisted. He said the media could exploit the recommendations and, therefore, these would not be made public.