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Pak army admits killing of 9 Sindhis

3 army commanders removed
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan. June 15: The Pakistani army took the blame on Sunday for the deaths of nine villagers in Slndh -province and removed three commanders from their posts, reports Reuter.
But the army seemed to face further embarrassment after a third man died in military custody during a two-week-old crackdown on crime in the southern province bordering India.
Sindh's state government on Sunday paid compensation lo the families of the dead nine villagers it had earlier dismissed as bandits and saboteurs.
In a rare gesture of open ness, an army spokesman said the killings, near the central Sindh town of Jamshoro .on June 5. were the responsibility
of an army major now tn custody.
Three senior commanders in the area were removed on Sunday by Army Chief General Asif Nawaz, Vice-Chief of General Staff Major General Jamshed Malik told reporters at army headquarters tn Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
He described the death of ihc three men tn army custody as a "very odd coincidence" but denied that interrogators were harsh.
"Maybe the fear of the military was too much (for them).'
One of the three was young opposition politician Mohammad Yusuf Jakhrani, leader of a small provincial parly.
Two landlords arrested in connection with the Jamshoro killings died while they were
being questioned by security forces last week, the police said.
Malik said Ihe cause of these deaths had not been de termined.
He acknowledged that the Jamshoro killings were a setback for the army operation, which the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif s federal govern -ment had ordered to last six months.
"But we are doing a certain damage control." he added.
Both the civilian and army authorities as well as the official media had called the nine people bandits or saboteurs trained In neighbouring India.
But later other villagers of the area said the nine men and a tenth man injured were innocent people caught up tn a scheme planned by local land-
lords wtth the help of some army personnel.
Malik said army chief general Asif Nawaz had removed the area s divisional comman dcr. a brigade commander and a battalion commander from their posts.
The Sindh government on Sunday paid 300.000 rupees (dollar 12.000) lo each of the families of the dead as compensation. the official APP news agency said.
The government also promised to glee each family 25 acres of land, it said.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who challenges the legitimacy of the state's civilian government, says there will bc no Improvement in her home province until Sindhis are given their due rights.