No students will be harassed during probe: Arafat

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat has said only terrorists will be brought to book based on specific evidence and no innocent students will be harassed, reports BSS.

"We want to firmly say that the law will be enforced to only terrorists on the basis of specific evidence . . . we have clearly instructed that no innocent student be harassed," he told journalists at a briefing at his Secretariat office in the capital on Thursday.

Noting that only the people whose involvement will be found in criminal offenses will be arrested, Arafat said from the beginning, the government has been giving protection to the students and never attributed the liability of destruction to them.

"We have respect for the emotions and feelings of the protesting students. We attributed the liability of the destruction to the terrorists. It should be cleared to all," he said.

The state minister asked the police administration so that the students who took part in the demonstrations, chanted slogans and distributed water among protesters and their family members do not face any harassment.

Expressing deep sorrow for every casualty centering the quota reform movement, he said the government is firmly committed to holding trials of all deaths through the independent judicial commission that has already been formed.