Pakistan

'Elements from outside the city responsible for target killings'

Rehman Malik said that he had reports that elements from outside the city were involved in target killings in Karachi.

Express July 26, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister, Rehman Malik said on Monday that he had reports that elements from outside the city were involved in target killings in Karachi.

Malik was speaking to the media after offering condolences to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain upon the death of his son.

He said the government has requested the Afghan government to stop the flow of terrorists and weapons into Pakistan. He said the government aims to fight the mindset that drives young men towards militancy.

He further added that the government is taking strict action against banned organisations in Punjab. According to him, 18,000 seminaries, out of the total of 24,000, have already been registered.

Talking about the Time Square Bomb suspect, Faisal Shahzad, Malik asserted that he is not a Pakistani.

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Liaquat Ali | 14 years ago | Reply @Khan, The police in Pakistan exists to protect the elite from the commoner and NOT to protect the commoners from criminals.The police in Pakistan operates under Police Act of India 1861 that was created by the British to keep the populace under control. At least Indians are serious about getting it changed. Pakistanis have claimed to have reformed it. What a joke!

Liaquat Ali | 14 years ago | Reply What a silly comment ! Only a PPP official could make mindless comments like this. If the elements from outside are responsible for the target killings then it would be the easiest problem to solve. Just station security forces on the entrances of the city. Problem solved. Also, talking about madrassas in relation to terrorism is a copout. It is about sugar mills and other assets. For example, most if not all sugar mills are owned by either the PPP or PML folks. What is being done in is to harass the MQM and to bog it down with another operation, similar to the 1992 operation, to prevent it from going outside Karachi to continue its political activities that could drive the feudal out of the country.

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Khan | 14 years ago | Reply The only way to control this and the only long term solution is that the police should be strengthened and trained properly and better compensated. The rangers should be returned to the borders as they are the reason behind this menace.

Rezan | 14 years ago | Reply There are many irresponsible comments about Janab Altaf Hussain.He is an honest man who is most sincerely fighting for the welfare of all Pakistanis. The whole country should get behind him and support him. AS for the people who laying false charges against him these are real traitors of Pakistan.

Rezan | 14 years ago | Reply The way things are going on martial law is on the only answer. Pakistan can survive only with martial law. Karach had always been a hotbed of violence during PPP rule especially during Benazir's time. Now the story is being repeated. But look at MUsharraf's time. Karachi's violence was stopped for a good eight years.The city flourished and developed. See the difference.

Sultan Ahmed. | 14 years ago | Reply Target killing is problem need to resolve, in case it was easy task not reached to point of red sign when you say that is no problem looks king among wisdom free people.

Saim Baig | 14 years ago | Reply What rubbish!! Then what is stopping you to catch them? The problem can not be solved until to categorize it as a problem & target killing is not a problem for them.

Sultan Ahmed. | 14 years ago | Reply The word,outsider has been used by the interior minister who is involved in clashes and responsible for target killing in karachi. On the other hand, it is also being said that grabbing mafia,land mafia and other mafias are involved in the target killing. The fact is that, outsider with the help of local mafias committing crime against the state. Afghan government has totally been failed to control the situation so insurgents entering into Pakistan under planed conspiracies to stop them it is need of the time. Never depend on Afghan government we will have to do more.

Khawaja Faraz Ahmed | 14 years ago | Reply hmmm @ Sasha rightly said so like sawat camp outside city so that Army can carry out operation against bhata mafia, land mafia, barrier mafia, street crime mafia, police mafia, and rangers mafia left inside city....Dear Interior minister kindly give timelines so that city may be evacuated....

sasha | 14 years ago | Reply what would you have us do sir? evacuate the city cause the elements disrupting the city are outside your control?

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