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| Musharraf sez Wana’s an al-Qaeda base | |||||
| 2004-07-01 | |||||
President Gen Pervez Musharraf while presiding over a high level meeting regarding law and order in the country, held here Awan-e-Sadr on Thursday said that Wana and Shakai were headquarters of Al-Qaeda and added that terrorists hiding there and their harbours would be dismantled.
The President identified contrasting perceptions vis-a-vis law and order the gap between policy formation and its implementation as the major impediments in the way of maintenance of peace and security in the country.
He underlined that the religio-political parties as well as Ulema and Mashaikh should also fulfill their obligation in promoting sectarian harmony and tolerance in the society.
The meeting which lasted for about five hours was attended by Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Senior Minister Shaukat Aziz, Interior Minster Faisal Saleh Hayat, Information Minster Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Minster for religious affairs Ijazul Haq, governors and chief ministers of all the four provinces, Vice Chief of Army Staff General Yousaf Khan and chiefs of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat told Geo TV that the meeting identified internal security threats and discussed ways and means to curb them. "We focused on the possible solutions of law and order problems and decided that the Government would concentrate on addressing the problems at flashpoint places."With close coordination between the provinces and the federal government, we will be able to root out the menace of extremism, terrorism and lawlessness", he said.
The President warned that elements, which are bent upon impairing law and order situation and are conspiring to stop fruits of economic progress reach masses would not succeed in their vicious designs. Given the present circumstances the President said that rooting of terrorism and extremism were in the large interest of the country."Pakistan would achieve its objectives without comprising its national interest", he said. The meeting also reviewed reports regarding imparting of training of terrorism in some seminaries of the country.
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |