Top Pak judge orders court attack probe

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the authorities to identify policemen who failed to respond to a gun and suicide bomb attack on a court complex in Islamabad which killed 11 people.
Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani summoned top security officials over Monday's attack, the deadliest to hit the heavily-guarded capital in more than five years.
The judge asked for detailed reports on the incident by next Monday and ordered CCTV cameras at courthouses in Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi to be made fully operational within 48 hours.
Shahid Khan, the chief bureaucrat in the interior ministry, had told the court that cameras and three security scanner gates at the district courts had been broken for some time.
"The Secretary Interior is directed to make the CCTV cameras functional within 48 hours and by the evening ensure that compensation to the victims' families is announced," the top judge said.