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India-Pakistan
Operation to continue till arrest of LJ leadership
2013-02-22
[Dawn] The federal government announced on Wednesday that the operation launched against the 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 ...
(LJ) would continue till the arrest of its entire leadership.

Briefing news hounds after a meting of the federal cabinet, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said all law-enforcement agencies were participating in the operation which had led to the killing of four LJ members and arrest of 170 people allegedly involved in carrying out attacks on Hazara Shias.

"We assure everybody in the country that the government will take the ongoing operation to its logical conclusion," he said.

Defending the 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...
government which has been under Zulfiqar Magsi since the imposition of governor's rule on Jan 14, Kaira said the federal government was satisfied with his performance and would keep on supporting him.

He rejected a perception that the army and the government were not on the same page on security measures taken for the Hazara community in Quetta. "The army is part of the government and we can use it whenever a need arises."

When asked that the army was ready to deploy its troops but the government had resisted the move, Mr Kaira said if tomorrow the province wanted army's deployment it could do it under the Constitution.

"Yes, in the past institutions used to act on their own, but now things are different and all of us are trying to work within a framework laid down in the Constitution," he said.
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