Militant groups should be targeted at their roots: Rehman Malik

The Express Tribune News

Former interior minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi needed to be targeted at their “roots”.

Addressing the media in Karachi, he said that if the federal government wants to make any efforts towards curbing terrorism, they should consider its basic parameters. “I invented the term ‘targeted’ operation,” said Malik, adding that an operation needs to be carried out in south Punjab and Quetta. He asserted that there was no sectarian divide in Karachi. “The Shia-Sunni conflict has been deliberately created,” said Malik, explaining that the city was being targeted so that the entire country could be harmed. He said that this plan was hatched by separatist forces who didn’t want Balochistan to be part of the country. Bringing his address to a close, former interior minister said that this is the time when the people should not be thinking like a Punjabi or Balochi but as a Pakistani.