"Police are not trained or equipped for counter-terrorism, and training the police will be time consuming. The army will support the police in the provincial governments," the interior minister said while addressing the National Action Plan Committee (NAPC) meeting.
Nisar also said that an estimated 10,000 army personnel will be deployed in all four provinces, but also stated that the army is "over exposed on borders, and more specifically in the war against terror".
Further, in regard to the deployment of the army personnel in provinces, the interior minister stressed the need for the requisitioning of Article 245.
"Letters have been written to three provinces in regard to this, and if there is no requisitioning under Article 245, the armed forces will withdraw," he said.
"The army is currently doing the work of the Rapid Response Force," he stated.
The interior minister also added that financing of terrorist organisations should be stopped, and said the Red Book "for the most wanted terrorists" needs to be updated regularly.
"There should be effective implementation of the ban on militant organisations and measures to ensure against their re-emergence in different names," Nisar said, listing yet another point.
"When one organisation is banned, it starts to work again with another name," he said.
Nisar added that there needs to be consensus between civil and military leadership in this regard.
The interior minister also spoke about the role of the media, stating that militants should "not be glorified".
"Their [militants'] statements and threats should not be run as breaking news, whether it is on the internet or in the media," he said. He also said it is crucial to regulated the distribution of explosive materials.
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The police in very well trained in Sindh , just take out the military and paramilitary forces and leave Sindh police to manage its affairs and develop its institutional capacity.@cautious:
Pakistan is virtually under military rule now. Establishment of Military courts. Abolition of moratorium on executions. Sending 10000 more military personnel to provinces. Creating 5000 strong new force of recently retired army personnel. Controlling media and Internet. Invoking of article 245. Senseless military assaults in which most of the victims are innocent civilians. Extra judicial killings. Rampant incidences of kidnapping, torturing and dumping of mutilated bodies of political activists. No control of civilian government in running the affairs of federal interior ministry. Dictating the three provinces to come under army control.
Wait and watch the more unfolding events.
You have been fighting terrorist in your cities for about 13 years .. if the police aren't trained by now they never will be.
6 + years & till today, we have not made an effective anti-terror force. This shows our seriousness on this important issue? While they all agree that we are in a state of war, it is the duty of the govt to make action plan including RRP or Anti- Terror force ( whatever name one may give ), but the point is why were we all sleeping till we are jolted by APS Peshawar. Was this the only such gruesome act ? What do they think, giving every thing to the Army & make them in-effective by over-stretching its resources in terms of manpower etc; I do not understand the logic. In all over the World Army is for the external enemy, but it in Pakistan , from flood to any natural calamity to fighting internal enemy, call the Army. why we have not built any parallel force for internal duty ? because, we are incompetent, in-human, dishonest, unpatriotic & corrupt, resulting in flawed priorities. Allah swt & history will never forgive them & us.
@pakistani: Nope. Ch. Nisar has established himself as the worst and most incompetent interior ministers of all times. No one comes closer. The death of a terrorist pains him more than the slaughtering of our men, women, and children.
A meeting is a gathering of important people who can individually do nothing, but can collectively decide that nothing can be done. Hope the Pakistani politicians and government can prove us all wrong. Please decide to do something effective and soon.
Withdraw the police from the protection of these good for nothing politicians & so called VVIPs/VIPs etc. Why should they not experience the same level of risk that a common man encounters everyday.
@justwondering:
No one is suggesting that politicians to go & patrol the streets with guns. It is their duty, responsibility to make effective laws, effective police force & anti-terrorist force. Not only building roads, metros & other un-important projects. CM Sindh approved buying 3rd helicopter for relief & rescue work for Rs 1.5 billion ( the SC has stayed this project - thank Allah swt ). Is this a priority or law & order or Thar ? Our LEas & Thar need more resources & here we have CM Sindh who already has 2 helicopters & yet needs 1 more. So, basically our politicians have flawed priorities ( they are only there to make money, hook or by crook ). If these politicians had any sense of priority, they would have focused on increasing the capacity of LEAs, not building metros worth Rs 50 billion. We have seen increase of these terrorist activity for the past 7 years & not the PPP govt nor the PML N govt had prioritized improvement in our police force. What is the use of metros when no life will exist to use it if act of terrorism continues unabated & giving away the responsibility to the Army who is already over-stretched ? this is not fair to our Armed forces. If we pass on the buck to the Army, their expenses increase & then we complain, they are eating away majority from our GDP, is this fair ? if Army has to do all the work, then hand over the country to them, NO you won
t, because the politicians & people like you wont be able to make money. you cannot have the best of both world - have the cake & eat it too. The Army is not a fool.@ justwondering no we are suggesting these elected (Through rigging) politicians to do something practically make anti-terror force release the fund rather then spending billions in metro hire qualified and well equipped police rather then appointing relatives and the people who are their slaves make madrassa reforms arrest people like Maulana abdulaziz safety is first my friend they are just giving useless statements everyday before they were blaming IK for every single thing now what?
Can we boot out CORRUPTION and CORRUPT POLITICIANS who are destroying the country!
Are all of you suggesting these elected politicians should go into the streets with guns and start patrolling the streets? Army is doing what it is supposed to do, its not a favour to the country. This is NOT what it looks like when army does more than what its job is i.e. rule this country.
6 + years & till today, we have not made an effective anti-terror force. This shows our seriousness on this important issue? While they all agree that we are in a state of war, it is the duty of the govt to make action plan including RRP or Anti- Terror force ( whatever name one may give ), but the point is why were we all sleeping till we are jolted by APS Peshawar. Was this the only such gruesome act ? What do they think, giving every thing to the Army & make them in-effective by over-stretching its resources in terms of manpower etc; I do not understand the logic. In all over the World Army is for the external enemy, but it in Pakistan , from flood to any natural calamity to fighting internal enemy, call the Army. why we have not built any parallel force for internal duty ? because, we are incompetent, in-human, dishonest, unpatriotic & corrupt, resulting in flawed priorities. Allah swt & history will never forgive them & us.
on how many ground army will have to play, these elected parliamentarian are for what divine purpose
Mr prime minister change your interior minister he is not competent for this job. Believe us.
So what i understand is army is the one who is responsible for everything borders, internal security etc and gov't is only for giving time waste statements and photosessions they are not capable of anything seriously
Incredible to think that finally after losing so many innocent lives and the gruesome Peshawar incident we have woken up to the fact that we are in a state of war and need to come up with a plan.... And even now we are yet to fully agree who the enemy is.
What policy is there to counter corrupt politicians?
yes and the plan is catch anyone who collect more than 10 rotis from the naan shop. Well done Choudary Nisar. You are surely in competition with Rehman Malik.