Pakistan on Sunday ordered a judicial probe into sectarian clashes in Rawalpindi that killed at least 10 people as authorities imposed curfew for the second day, turning the garrison city into a ghost town.
A judicial commission headed by lahore High Court Judge Justice Mamoon Rashid Shaikh will conduct the probe into the Rawalpindi mayhem, which prompted authorities to call in Army to maintain law and order situation in the city.
After a respite of three-and-a-half hours (9.00 pm to 12.30 am) last night, curfew was re-imposed as a preventive measure because the burial of those killed in Friday’s clashes is set to be held on Sunday. Mobile phone networks continued to be suspended in Rawalpindi. The cellphone network has also been suspended here in Islamabad.
Curfew was imposed within the limits of 19 police stations of Rawalpindi after Shias participating in a Muharram procession clashed with students from a Sunni seminary on Friday. Ten people were killed and over 40 injured in the violence.