Pakistan government has decided to seek help of the leaders of banned terrorist outfits, including Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar, to control violence in the country after some arrested terrorists warned of major strikes in cities like Islamabad and Lahore. In lieu of their support, some concessions would be offered to them such as they could be exempted from reporting to police regularly and allowed organisational activities which would be limited to preaching, according to officials. Pakistan’s security officials were busy contacting the leaders of the banned local terrorist outfits after "the information gathered from arrested terrorists suggested that others could hit Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar after Quetta, Karachi and Gwadar," the Daily Times quoted officials as saying. The new strategy to consult the terrorist leadership was hit off after the government thought that the terrorists, who could not be controlled by their leaders, had become a threat to peace in Pakistan and decided to seek the help of the leaders of the groups with offers to relax curbs against them to bring the situation under control, it said.
| What a brilliant idea, they're a threat to peace, so you put them in charge! |
The intelligence agencies were consulting Maulana Masood Azhar, the head of the defunct Jaish; Maulana Fazlur Rehman Kahlil of Jamiat al-Ansar alias Harkatul Mujahideen; Maulana Abdullah Shah Mazhar, the organiser of the Jamiatul Furqan, a rebel outfit of Jaish; and Maulana Ali Sher Haidri and Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi from the banned Sunni terrorist outfit Millat-e-Islamia, it said. |