PESHAWAR: Pakistan People`s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday announced that his party would get a resolution adopted by the Senate to seek judicial inquiry into the 2014 Army Public School Peshawar carnage and stern action against culprits.

He made the announcement during a meeting with the parents of the students killed in the Dec 16, 2014, militant attack on the army-run school.

The meeting took place at the house of PPP provincial president Engineer Mohammad Humayun Khan here, where oppositionleaderintheNational Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah, PPP Senator Rubina Khalid, Farhatullah Babar, provincial general secretary Faisal Karim Kundi and leaders Syed Zahir Ali Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Humayun Khan, Qaim Ali Shah and Nighat Orakzai were also in attendance.

A total of 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members, were massacred by the Taliban militants in the APS attack. During the meeting with Mr Zardari, Ms Shahana represented the parents, who held the portraits of their children killed by militants.

During discussion on the massacre, the participants, including Mr Zardari, had teary eyes. They later offered Fateha for the carnage victims. The parents complained about the government`s `apathy` to their demands, including judicial probe into the APS massacre and handing over of former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan to them, and urged the PPP leader to play his role in this respect.

They also called for a `decisive action` against the attack mastermind based in Afghanistan and said the government should secure his custody through exchange of prisoners.

The parentsinsisted that the media coverage of Ehsanullah Ehsan was an attempt to glorify him and therefore, the government should step in to stop it.

They said the government had ordered probe into the death of female elephant, Suzi, in Lahore zoo but ironically, it had yet hold judicial inquiry into the APS massacre. Mr Zardari told parents that his party would get a resolution passed by the Senate to seek action on their demands by the current government and that it would take effective action on them after coming to power.