As seven more people were killed in Karachi on Tuesday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that everything has a limit, enough is enough, the government is going to take extra-ordinary measures to restore peace and normalcy in Karachi, private television channels reported.
After presiding a high level meeting at the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC), the federal minister told journalists that terrorists had tested the government enough and action would now be taken against them. “We are fully determined to take stern action against miscreants and outlaws who want to destabilise Pakistan,” he said.
The meeting was attended by Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan, Sindh Rangers Acting Director General Brigadier Zafar Iqbal and Sindh Inspector General of Police Wajid Ali Khan Durrani. During the meeting, Rehman Malik said that 26 people were killed in various parts of Karachi on Monday by terrorists who targeted all including Urdu, Pushto and Seraiki speaking people.
“We are committed to take action with force against the law breakers,” he said. The government will not allow anti-state elements to destabilise the country, he said, and added that people know who were the miscreants. “Now even our children and mothers are being targeted,” he pointed out.
The minister said that a strategy has been prepared to take action against 90,000 Afghanis living in Karachi with fake documents and also government would check the illegal Bengali immigrants as well. “We will bring peace in Karachi at all cost and no one will be allowed to make the city hostage at gun point,” he added.
Later on, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan said that the federal government has been lending a helping hand to restore peace in Karachi. He said that the operative parts of the operation could not be disclosed beforehand. He said that everyone would come to know within three days that what sorts of action were being taken for restoring peace.