Ansar Burney requests joint impartial inquiry on identity of Jeddah attacker

KARACHI: Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and Pakistan's former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Mr. Ansar Burney, has requested the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to conduct a joint independent and impartial inquiry into allegations that the man behind the suicide bomb attack in Jeddah on 04 July 2016 was a Pakistani national.

The United Nations former Expert adviser on human rights, Mr Ansar Burney stated that the image released by the Saudi Ministry of Interior of the alleged Pakistani attacker's body (identified as Abdul Gulzar Khan) was entirely inconsistent with how a human body would look after such an attack. He therefore questioned whether the wrong man had been identified as the attacker in front of the United States Consulate at Jeddah.