MIRPUR, May 08:Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq, while describing May 9 as the darkest chapter in the country\u2019s history, has said that there was no option but to punish the criminals.
\nIn his special statement issued on Wednesday, the PM said, \u201cThose responsible should be brought to justice and severely punished so that no one dares to do this in the future.\u201d Terming martyrs as the greatest asset of a nation, the AJK premier said that they were the proud sons of the soil who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrict action should be taken against those who desecrated the memorials of martyrs,\u201d the PM said, adding that such people don\u2019t deserve pardon or pity.
\nThe AJK PM categorically said that there could be no pardon for such anarchists who vandalized the martyrs\u2019 memorials and monuments and targeted the strategic installations of the Pakistan Army.
\nHe said that the desecration of martyrs was not acceptable in any case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MIRPUR, May 08:Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq, while describing May 9 as the darkest chapter in the country\u2019s history, has said that there was no option but to punish the criminals. In his special statement issued on Wednesday, the PM said, \u201cThose responsible should be brought to justice and severely …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64486,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64469\/revisions\/64486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}