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Rehman asks Punjab to arrest all sectarian militants
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
said on Sunday in Vehari that Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Quetta and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
were being targeted by beturbanned goons to destabilise Pakistain consequently to hit the economy.

He said this at the opening ceremonies of passport offices in Jehanian and Vehari.

He said the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would launch a crackdown on Lashkar-e-Janghvi (LeJ) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) if the Punjab government did not take action against them.

He said murders in Quetta and Karachi would not happen if the Punjab government had taken action against the proscribed outfits.

"The nation must know who withdrew cases against (LeJ leader) Malik Ishaq and provided him security," he said.

He said that maintaining of law and order situation was the responsibility of the provinces after the passing of the 18th Amendment and the federal government just shares information with provincial governments.

He said that the Punjab government should take action against 734 activists and leaders of the LeJ and Taliban as the FIA had provided information regarding them to the Punjab government.

"Punjab government should arrest all those people whose names on the list," he said.

In Vehari, he told news hounds that the spate of terrorism was linked with foreign hands because of Pakistain's strategic location and nuclear assets.Mr Malik told news hounds though the government was trying to eliminate terrorism, joint efforts were needed to address terrorism and extremism.

He said he hoped that the nation would overcome the terrorism with the help of law enforcing agencies. He praised the Punjab government for arresting bad turban Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
's activists.

He cited government's Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
initiative by the government to address the Balochistan issue. He said the government had given representation to the Baloch people in departments, especially in Islamabad police. He urged the Baloch youth fighting law-enforcement agencies to become the part of mainstream Pakistain.

He said that government's priority was to hold impartial, fair and peaceful elections in the country.

He advised politicians, particularly to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to be decent while talking of PPP Co-Chairman President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
. He said Mr Zardari had braved 11 years in jail for the cause of democracy.

He said the provision of basic facilities to the people of far-flung areas was the priority of the government.

He said the PPP believed in the politics of reconciliation and mutual co-existence and was ready to work with the PML-N government in Punjab. PPP MNA Natasha Daultana thanked the interior minister for establishing the passport office in Vehari.

Posted by: Fred 2013-02-26
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