Federal Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Friday that the ongoing military operation in Wana would continue until the registration of foreigners in the area commences. Talking to journalists at a ceremony to inaugurate the website of the district administration at the Islamabad Club, the minister said that the government was determined to eliminate terrorism from the country. The minister said that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal was misguiding the people about the operation in Wana. âThey are distorting facts and only showing one side of the picture.â
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The minister reiterated that the Wana operation was not launched at the behest of the US and only the Pakistani army was involved. To a question about a ban on MMA leaders entering Sindh, he said that the federal government had nothing to do with that. âThis ban has been imposed by an elected provincial government,â he said. The interior minister said that the government was receiving serious threats from Al Qaeda but the law enforcement agencies were vigilant to combat such threats. âWe have entirely dismantled the vicious network,â he said. He said that the investigation into the murders of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and Munawar Suharwardy had made head way and claimed that the killers would be arrested soon. The minister said that the incidents of terrorism in Karachi and other parts of the country were linked with the Wana situation. Earlier the minister ordered the district administration to provide the public access to information. |