Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that unity among the Pakistanis had played an important role in countering terrorism.
Talking to reporters, Malik said the authorities had foiled a terror bid in Karachi on Sunday, adding that high intensity explosives had been used in the bomb.
He said the arrested terrorist, identified as Attaullah, had confessed that he wanted to detonate a bomb in Karachi. Malik said the accused was living in Gulistan-e-Johar, and was associated with the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Praising the efforts of law enforcement agencies in maintaining peace in the country, Malik said the police personnel, who successfully thwarted the terror bid in Karachi, would be rewarded.
He further said that the government might consider amnesty for those militants who agree to lay down their weapons. He said that Taliban had opened “franchises” in which they inducted “all those people who are involved in bad activities”.
He said that orders had been issued to close multiple cellular SIMs registered with one person. He urged prepaid customers to get their SIMs registered once again after November 30, otherwise their connections could be blocked.
TTP rejects possibility of peace talks with government
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan on Monday rejected every possibility of peace talks with the government. Reacting to a statement by Interior Minister Rehman Malik issued on Sunday, the TTP spokesman rejected any prospects of peace talks with the government, accusing the interior minister of being “a foreign agent not worthy of granting forgiveness to the Taliban”. Ehsan said the organisation would continue their struggle until the ouster of “secular rulers imposed by foreign forces to rule an Islamic country”. He said the TTP was striving for the creation of an independent state governed by Islamic sharia, upon which the foundations of Pakistan were laid.
This govt has failed its obligation to the citizens on every single count. Bomb blasts everyday, no motorcycle riding, no phone service, no law, no order, no merit, unbelievable corruption, no gas, no electricity, no cng, skyrocketing prices, huge debt, unstopable inflation, miserable economic policies, every criminal in key posts……..Unless these politicians are thrown out and new ones brought in, there is no stopping the downfall on Pakistan. To hear rehman malik paint a rosy pictures is just pathetic unless he believes that Pakistanis are too stupid to understand whats going on around them.
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