If they kill us, we’ll have to kill them too: Rashid

“If they (Taliban) strike once, we’ll strike twice,” said Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid in a statement on Thursday.

The senator said that the process of dialogue and terrorism could not go hand-in-hand. He said that the doors were open for those who believed in peace and dialogue and shunned the path of violence.

Those Taliban groups, who were willing for dialogue, should isolate themselves from those involved in terrorist activities and violence, the minister emphasised.

The minister that they (Taliban) would be paid back in their own coin, adding that security forces had every right to defend themselves and mightily respond to terrorists, who were slitting the throats of their soldiers. He further said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had also directed the security forces to give a befitting reply in their defence to the terrorists.