File photo of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat chief Malik Ishaq. PHOTO: REUTERS/ FILE
The Interior Ministry on Thursday discussed putting the name of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) chief Malik Muhammad Ishaq on the Exit Control List (ECL), Express News reported. Interior Minister Rehman Malik directed that a reminder should be issued for this recommendation.
The decision came amidst reports suggesting that Ishaq was planning to leave Pakistan.
Addressing a meeting in Islamabad on Thursday, Malik said that he had taken notice of the law and order situation and ordered the provinces to submit individual reports on the terrorist groups in their respective regions.
He further asked the provinces to put forward proposals to stop the activities of groups who have been involved in terrorist activities throughout the country, many of which are now working under other names after they were banned previously.
Earlier, as many as 119 members of the ASWJ, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) were placed under ‘preventive detention’ under the Maintenance of Public Order in a province-wide operation by the Punjab police and the Counter-Terrorism Department. Malik Ishaq, Ghulam Rasool Shah, and Maavia Azam Tariq are already in police custody.
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Exiling him won't cure anything. The Saudis will keep financing his organization and he will continue issuing orders. He should be hanged.
He should be on the 'exit list' and not on exit control list. They are not assets that you want to hold on to them.
In this picture appears to me as helpless and tired too,has the official sponsorship disappeared.
why not banish them for life to mali or somalia
Let him leave. The US will pick him up and give him a one way ticket to Gitmo. Good riddance!
Malik Ishaq and his faithfulls should be deported to Iran for red carpet treatment.
So used to having his finger on the trigger, he has rested his finger in the same position like he is holding an AK in the photo above.
He needs to be hanged for his deeds rather than being put on ECL. In a place where Shahrukh Jatoi can bypass so many security checks after a murder, someone powerful and close to Saudis like Malik Ishaq won't be able to bypass ECL would be a naive assumption.
Exiling him sounded like a great plan to me but then I remembered how effectively some terror organisations are controlled from abroad and we have no way to get their leader back here.....
Why no action was taken earlier. Everybody remembers everything near the elections. This is cheap publicity.
He should be given 'the' exit he has done enough proven crimes to deserve that.
For once in my life let me say 'I like it, Rehman Malik!'
Oh no please put him of the EXILE CONTROL LIST and never let him come back!
And then we will listen a story of Great Escape in the hands of PIA... )
Face of a murder
he should be exiled why do you want to hold on to him