Summary It took the police around 45 minutes to reach the district courts, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain said.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) –Supreme Court’s three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Tasadduq Hussain Jilani on Tuesday heard suo motu notice pertaining to terrorist attack on a local court in Islamabad, Dunya News reported.
During case proceedings, the bench asked from the federal interior secretary that how many policemen were actually deployed at the F-8 Islamabad Kachehri on Monday.
The interior secretary replied that 47 policemen were on duty at the time of the incident yesterday.
The interior secretary in his report stated that the police reached the site of the attack within seven minutes.
On this, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain said that if the police had reached in seven minutes, the loss would have been less.
He added that it took the police around 45 minutes to reach the district courts.
Meanwhile, the apex court ordered that closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras of high resolution should be installed in district courts within 48 hours in order to avoid attacks.
In this regard, notices were issued to chief secretaries of the four provinces.
Subsequently, the case hearing was adjourned till Monday.
THE ATTACK
Eleven people including a judge were killed on Monday in a gun and suicide bomb attacks on a court complex in Islamabad, a rare strike at the heart of the heavily-guarded Pakistani capital.
The Tehreeke-e-Taliban denied any connection to the assault, which came two days after the militants announced a month-long ceasefire aimed at restarting stalled peace talks with the government.
A spokesman for the Ahrar-ul-Hind militant group, which recently split from the main Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella group, claimed resonsibility of the attack.
