PST stands with Malala, demands NWA operation

The Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) on Sunday expressed complete solidarity with Malala Yousafzai, demanding the armed forces of Pakistan not delay the military operation against terrorists in North Waziristan.
Dozens of female activists belonging to the PST’s women wing assembled outside the National Press Club to stage a demonstration against the controversial anti-Islam film and the attack on Malala, holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the Taliban and the makers of the blasphemous film.
Addressing the protestors, PST Central leader Mufti Liaqat Ali Sabri strongly criticised the policies adopted by the United States and the West for promoting hate material against holy personalities. Freedom of speech, said Sabri, could not permit material that hurt sentiments of believers following any religion. He demanded the US government hand over producers of the film to Islamic countries so that they might be punished accordingly.
He also flayed drone strikes in the border regions of the country terming them counterproductive, demanding the US halt them immediately. Allama Ashfaq Ahmed from PST in his address criticised the silence of the media and political figures on the growing intolerance and extremism in the society.
He said those who supported terrorists and extremists were not serving the interests of the state but were in fact enemies of the state.
The PST leader demanded the armed forces of the country to launch a military operation against the militants in N Waziristan claiming that otherwise the role of these forces would seem dubious to the people of the country.