Malik announces amnesty for young Taliban

Interior minister urges Taliban to stop terrorist activities and to help govt in strengthening the country.


Express May 30, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced amnesty for young Taliban who renounce violence and urged them to give up suicide bombing and other terrorist activities and help the government strengthen the country.

Addressing a Pakistan Peoples Party Youth Convention in Islamabad, the interior minister asked the participants if it was right to pray for the terrorists who have destroyed the national assets and slammed those who led funeral prayers for the al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden who was killed in a US raid in Abbottabad.

Malik also said he had prepared a summary regarding the provision of civil defence training to 25,000 youth on the President's orders.

Federal Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan, Jehangir Badar, Federal Minister Maula Bukhsh Chandio, Sharmila Farooqi, Imtiaz Safdar Warraich and other PPP leaders also addressed the convention.

The participants of the meeting also passed a resolution reposing confidence in the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari.

COMMENTS (8)

Naveed | 12 years ago | Reply this is not a bad decision...!
abdul moiz | 12 years ago | Reply no amnesty should be announced for the religious extremists,otherwise they'll get a chance to recuperate & then they will spread their cavemen mentality to our cities also.we can't give them breathing space otherwise we'll have public whipping of girls in our cities also,we'll have beheadings of what these mazhabi fanatics call 'blasphemy',we'll have public stoning to death of women .
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