Opposition leader says nation is united to fight terrorism

Syed Khursheed Shah says time has come to take a final decision to wipe out the criminal elements.

RAWALPINDI: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Friday said “the entire nation was united to fight terrorism and the time has come to take a final decision to wipe out the elements taking lives of innocent people.”

"We are thinking why are our security personnel and civilians are being targeted. We must sit together and the government will have to take a final decision against terrorists," he said while talking to reporters here at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) where he visited to inquire about the health of the injured of Bannu and Rawalpindi terrorism incidents.

Former federal ministers Qamar Zaman Kaira and Nazar Muhammad Gondal also accompanied him. Shah said the leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had categorically stated that it would extend all-out support to the government in its decision to tackle miscreants carrying out subversive activities in various parts of the country.

Shah said the PPP would not leave the government alone in any circumstances for the cause of national sovereignty and democracy and that PPP and the entire nation was standing with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Answering a question, he said that PPP in its tenure had purged Swat and Malakand divisions of terrorists after taking the parliament into confidence, but now is not the time to score points. He said the writ of the state must be maintained at all costs as any weakness would encourage enemies of the country.