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Pakistan army rules out terror plot in copter crash
Pakistan's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asim Bajwa has ruled out the possibility of any terrorist or subversive activity in the helicopter crash which killed a number of foreign envoys
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akistan's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asim Bajwa has ruled out the possibility of any terrorist or subversive activity in the helicopter crash which killed a number of foreign envoys.
He said the helicopter crashed due to a technical fault.
Bajwa, however, said that as per procedure, a board of inquiry has been constituted to investigate the cause of the crash.
There were three MI-17 helicopters, one carrying foreign diplomats, one carrying the prime minister and his staff and a third one with senior military officials.
Earlier, in a series of tweets, Bajwa said that six Pakistanis and 11 foreigners were on board the MI-17 helicopter.
Prime minister Nawaz Sharif has extended heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of the two ambassadors and the spouses of two other envoys who died in today's incident and has declared one day mourning in relation to the incident.
He also expressed concern over the conditions of the injured diplomats and prayed for their speedy recovery.
He directed concerned authorities to provide the injured diplomats with the best medical treatment. The premier also directed authorities to dispatch planes and helicopters to evacuate the injured diplomats and transport the bodies to Islamabad.(*)
