Pakistan

There is no room now for ‘Jihadi outfits or culture’ in Pakistan, says Imran Khan

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has said that there is no room for ‘Jihadi outfits or culture’ in the country and added that Pakistan cannot ‘live or survive in isolation’.

According to a report by the Dawn, Khan while interacting with group of newspaper editors and other senior journalists said no country in the world could allow private militias to operate at will.

“Here is a situation that on the one hand India is wrongly blaming Pakistan for the Pulwama attack just because Jaish accepted responsibility, and on the other, even Iran is complaining that militant groups have been using our soil to carry out attacks.”

He said all the political parties had already agreed to the National Action Plan and by now the militant groups have been proscribed. Further action was being taken against them as his government could not allow any such activity on the soil of Pakistan.

Tracing the history of jihadi outfits and “jihadi culture”, he said “these groups have existed since the days of the US-led Afghan war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and have operated from here for decades”.

However, he said there was no room now for any such group in the country, as Pakistan would like the world to believe that it was not only a peace-loving country but it was sincere in eradicating this culture of “jihadism” and terrorism through short-term and long-term policies.

Recently Pakistan took 44 members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar — the former believed to be the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) leader Masood Azhar and the latter his son —  in preventive detention for investigation.

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