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Good news likely soon for people of India and Pakistan, claims Malik | Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has expressed the hope that people of both India and Pakistan would soon hear 'good news', as the two neighbouring countries have chalked out a roadmap to address all the contentious issues pending between them. In an interview with
The News, Malik, who recently held talks with his Indian counterpart P. Chidambaram
on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Minister's Summit here last month, said
both countries have decided to fight terrorism together. "Pakistan, India have
prepared a roadmap, and in the coming weeks the people would hear good news, though
at this point of time we have agreed not to disclose details of that roadmap and
the planning being done to jointly fight out terrorism," Malik said. Malik's statement
has come at a time when all eyes are on the meeting between External Affairs Minister
S M Krishna with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad on
July 15. Responding to a question about the Taliban and other militant groups'
ever expanding threat in Pakistan, Malik described the various militant organisations
as "mercenaries who want to spread Talibanisation" across the country. "These
runaway mercenaries from Swat, Malakand and the tribal belt are engaged in other
provinces like the Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan to spread sectarianism, ethnicity
in a bid to cripple the society," he said. Despite terrorists striking at will
in Punjab province, which has resulted in the death of scores of innocent civilians,
Malik ruled out any military operation in the region. "I do not think there is
a need of military operation in that areas, but there's a necessity to control
the movement of such terrorists and their handlers through stringent laws," he
said. |
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