There is no difference between good Taliban and bad Taliban because they are neither Muslim nor Pakistani, said Manzoor Wattoo while talking to a delegation of students of a local university that called on him at the Party Secretariat on Tuesday.
The nation is united to defeat the evil and will definitely succeed, he said, adding that Operation Zarb-e-Azab was underway and whole nation is standing behind the army in the fight against extremism and terrorism.
He expressed his grave concern over the surge of sectarian violence.
He said that the so called scholars indulge in hate speeches and incite innocent people to kill fellow Muslims of other school of thoughts. It is not condoned by our religion that clearly describes the murder of a human being as the murder of whole humanity, he said.
He observed that overwhelming majority of the religious scholars were against the wrong interpretation of the religion because Islam stood peace, security and tolerance, adding that the element of extremism in our religion had been incorporated by those clerics who wanted to remain relevant by hook or crook.
He said that all those who had left the country due to the fear should come back to Pakistan because we as a nation had to fight out the menace to secure the future of our generations so that they could live in peace and harmony and progress in all walks of national life.
