Pakistan, Afghan Taliban need to take action against terrorists: Rehman Malik
Islamabad: Former Interior Minister and Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) Senator A. Rehman Malik has said that terrorists of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) can be used against Pakistan therefore Mullah Bardar have to hand over them to Pakistan.
He said that merely making a commission to look into activities of TTP will not be enough but the Taliban’s new administration will need to hand over them to Pakistan. He said that TTP terrorists are wanted for Pakistan in many terrorist activities as we never forget the massacre of Army Public School Peshawar and other terrorist attacks wherein thousands of innocent civilians and troops were killed by the Taliban. He said that releasing TTP terrorists can prove detrimental and dangerous for our country and also for the whole region. “The fencing on Pak-Afghan border played an important role as it not only stopped the influx of refugees but also controlled the terrorist infiltration in Pakistan from Afghanistan’, he added.
Senator A. Rehman Malik said that the vice-president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh is basically planted, trained, financed and in-charge of operations against Pakistan and China which major objective is to de-stabilize Pakistan through terrorist activities and insurgency in Balochistan and parts of KPK on behest of India.
He said that Mr. Saleh is spitting venom against Pakistan from his Twitter handle after the fall of Kabul rather to realize that India played a double game with the Ghani government. He said that India will try to increase its activities in ex-FATA and Balochistan by using TTP terrorists and Balochis as ‘Azad Group’ as India is interfering in Balochistan by supporting and financing disgruntled Baloch leaders.
Former Interior Minister said that there are two groups in Afghan Taliban – the Kandahari Taliban and Khost Taliban who are known as the Haqqani network and both differ ideologically. Haqqani network has a soft corner for Al-Qaeda, he added. He said that now the terrorist centers in Kandahar will be shifted around Kunar – the HQ of TTP Chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud. He said that Molvi Faqeer Muhammad recently released from Bagram Jail is now sitting in Kunar working over a bigger conspiracy duly supervised by India against Pakistan. He said that though Taliban leadership has appointed a commission to look at activities of TTP but it is not enough as TTP needs to be crushed. He said that Pakistan and new authorities in Afghanistan may use force against TTP to seize the use of Afghan soil against Pakistan and to ensure to stop further terroristic activities against Pakistan, CPEC, and Chinese interests both in Pakistan and China.
Senator Rehman Malik said, “I am advising the authorities of Pakistan and the Taliban that for the future relationship, stern actions against TTP is absolutely important for the peace of the entire region”. He said that he wishes peace prevails in Afghanistan as peace in Afghanistan means peace in Pakistan.
