Pakistan

Targeted operations to start in Punjab: Malik

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that targeted operation will be done in Punjab to eliminate terrorism.

Express June 08, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that targeted operations will start in Punjab to eliminate terrorism.

Talking to the media outside parliament house in Islamabad, Malik said that he had received the initial reports of the Lahore terror attack but is waiting for the final report before proceeding. He said that wherever the government will be challenged, targeted operations will take place in that area.

He said that the Punjab government is part of the federal government and they have extended their full cooperation to the Punjab government.

Talking about operations against terrorists he said that the army and law enforcement agencies are fully active and will not allow anyone to destabilize the law and order situation in any part of the country.

He also said that the nation is united in eliminating the terrorists and that guerilla tactics will be used in the ongoing war against terrorists.

Opinions on Punjab Taliban

Salman Latif says:

From the way Punjab government is handling the situation, and from the past record of the Chief Minister’s statements, it seems the PML-N prefers sustaining a vote bank to battling extremism. It has long pretended the non-existence of any such dangerous elements, but those statements have paled next to more substantial proofs coming forth about the role of Punjab-based Taliban in the recent saga of manslaughter at Lahore.

Farrukh Sarwar says:

With reference to your coverage on the Ahmadi attacks in Lahore, may I say that there really is no distinction between the Punjabi Taliban and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. All of them are extremists and destroyers of innocent civilian lives.

Syed Nadir El-Edroos says:

Inaction only guarantees one thing: it guarantees more deaths. Do parts of Punjab and the local populations have to suffer the same fate as Swat and Fata? Where the local population was left at the mercy of the Taliban? Or will the Sharifs act once Southern Punjab becomes a “no-go” area?

COMMENTS (3)

Aristo | 14 years ago | Reply It is the only army in the world that is notoriously famous for taking on its own people and territories (what ever the justifications may be). The list is long: Karachi operation, Baluchistan operation, Swat & Fata operation. Has our Army ever conquered an inch of enemy's land and still holds on to it. The monster of terrorism we are facing today is their creation to begin with. First they produced all these snakes, milked and nurtured them for so long and now the same snakes are challenging them on every front. "WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP"

hameed ali khan | 14 years ago | Reply i think there should be no distinctions between the punjabi taliban and the tehreek e taliban.if the govt. want to do operations against taliban in the southern punjab, these should be targeted operations which should completely based on the intelligence...wo could not afford the operation like in north waziristan or swat in the southern punjab.because this could spread all over pakistan very much easily...so the govt.should think about it...and i m agree with the above coment is that we should look for the external threads in it...

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