Islamabad: 29 October: National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) has condemned the dastardly bomb attack on Peshawar Bazars in which close to 100 innocent victims mostly women and children lost their lives.

Expressing deep sympathies with the victims’ families and solidarity with the people of Peshawar and the Provincial government the NCSW has assured them that they are not alone in their hour of grief and the whole nation stood by them.

In a press release the Commission has said that perverted vision of the militants who seek to push women into virtual slavery will never triumph. Their attempts to grab power and impose their myopic doctrine on the country have been rejected time and again by the nation and their attempts to achieve their goals by use of force will also fail.
According to representatives of the shopkeepers’ association threats had been received from militants demanding that women be stopped from going to the market. That the blast occurred in front of the Meena Bazaar and Koochi Bazaar, which are generally frequented by women, suggest that women shoppers were the main target. A short while ago, girl students were attacked in the International Islamic University and several were killed.
The Commission said that there seems to be nothing that is sacred for the militants. Children, parents, students, tribal elders, jirgas, funerals and mosques—all have been mercilessly targeted with no concern for the number children orphaned and families destroyed. The law enforcement agencies have been particularly attacked in a bid to create anarchy in the country.