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Operation launched in Punjab: reports
Unconfirmed reports suggest a massive target operation against three banned outfits has been launched in Punjab.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that an operation has been launched against banned outfits in Punjab. PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE: Unconfirmed reports suggest a massive target operation against three banned outfits has been launched in Punjab.
Lists of alleged terrorists have been handed over to police and law enforcement agencies.
Sources in the Punjab Home Department have said the final approval of the operation had been given by the Chief Minister Punjab.
Chief Secretary Punjab, Nasir Mehmood Khosa along with IG Punjab Tariq, Saleem Dogar are reported to have secretly visited the major cities of Punjab and finalised the modus operandi of the target operation.
655 people belonging to banned organisations in Multan have been put on the top of the list while 127 alleged miscreants have been declared most wanted from Jhang.
The list also contained the names of 60 people from Faisalabad, 19 from Toba Tek Singh, and 13 from Chiniot.
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The photo shows army soldiers, but the story suggests the police will be carrying out the operation.
Is the photo from the operation, or is it a file photograph?Recommend
It’s a file photo. (Web)Recommend
If true, and operation in Southern Punjab is good news. Having said that, I can’t help but believe the judiciary will set many of these of people free for lack of evidence.Recommend
this is express tribune,Recommend
Hamza is absolutely correct in stating that all the persons to be apprehended will have to be set free for lack of evidence. Unless we turn them into missing persons!
It is a measure to fend off the US pressure on one hand and extract dollars on the other hand to meet the cost of operation. We have already read about the demand of attack helicopters from the US.
Punjab population-wise is more than half of Pakistan. It is infested with madrassas on the dole of our Saudi and Gulf donors. But they are churning out evil heads.
It will take more than military/police operation to arrest the menace.
These madrassas should be taken over by the government. Administrators of the Auqaf Department should run these institutions on modern lines manned by qualified graduates from recognized college & universities.
Yet another Operation! We Pakistanis have witnessed many operations:
1971 in East Pakistan
1976 in Balochistan
1992 in Karachi
2007 in Balochistan
2008 in NWFP
2009 in FATA
2010 in the Punjab?
We must revisit history to avoid the blunders of the past.Recommend
We need to clean the mess in Punjab. It is better late than never!Recommend
About bloody time!!
but police action will not suffice. The army must be sent in to clean up these killers.Recommend
just for show. this Punjab government was elected to a large measure by this strata of society.Recommend
root of terror lies in Poverty
do thousand operations and in end you will see thousand headed hydra
If you want to eliminate terrorism/extremism
eliminate Poverty and ignorance.
History is Economics in Action. All racial or Ideological disputes have roots in economics. try to understand .
Use of force may bring short term peace but in Long run counter productive
example of Afghanistan is FATA is infront of youRecommend
This is crap!
They just “say” that an operation is launched!
In reality, they round up a few known suspects, then a few weeks later let them loose.
Maybe actually charging, prosecuting and putting these weirdo’s behind bars would be a better idea?Recommend
reading daily report of the double digit “insurgents” being killed in the on-going Army operations seems unfathomable – still no end seen to wiping the Taliban & Co. leadership clean. Only the drones seem to be hitting Bulls Eye.Recommend
Apart from operation whether it is conducted by the Army or Police, one must try to reach at the conclusion as how to end the menace of terrorism in Pakistan.
What are the root causes which make the insurgents to conduct terrorist activities in the country?
How can the insurgents be brought in the main stream line to behave like hourable citizens? What are their grievances? Why few people are holding guns in their hands and fighting against the state?
These are few mind-boggling questions which need to be answered to reach the root cause of terrorism.Recommend
Here we go again.
It seems we are creating our own civil war. Initially, it was Baluchistan and BLA than came NWFP and Taliban, Now Punjab so the only place left is Sindh. Lets see when do we have it under attack.Recommend
Those who are calling for the operation to be a civil war should check the history of Islamofascist groups, who over the years have killed & murdered people in name of God & religion, its about time the security organizations get up & do what they should have had done 20 years ago, to wipe clean these SAVAGES from our country.Recommend
i think all these terrorists should be shot dead so that they dun get any chance to get free from the courts due to the lack of evidenceRecommend