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| Either Leslie Neilsen or Aftab Khan Sherpao, I'm not sure which... And don't call me 'Shirley'... |
Since 2002, Pakistan banned over 10 jihadi outfits for their involvement in Afghan and Kashmir jihad. Intelligence agencies recently reported that most outlawed outfits were continuing their activities undercover and some of them with changed names. They re-launched the operation against the banned outfits after the July 7 London bombings. Sherpao said that 190 members of the banned outfits and groups had been arrested by the law enforcement agencies so far. He said the operation against the banned outfits, which was re-launched on the orders of President General Pervez Musharraf, would continue till the achievement of objectives.
The interior minister said that Nek Zaman, a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNA, harboured terrorists and assisted them in continuing sabotage in the country. A brother of the MNA, who belongs to North Waziristan, also assists foreign terrorists, the minister said, adding that investigations against the MNA and his brother were underway. He said that law enforcement agencies arrested 22 militants, some of them foreign, during a recent operation in Waziristan Agency. He said that government policies against the misuse of loudspeakers and distribution of hate literature were successful. He said the Al Qaeda network in the country had been broken.