President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday urged the Afghan government to take measures to stop “high profile” militants from crossing the border into Pakistan. High profile? Like... ummm... Mullah Omar?
Chairing the 9th meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) here, Musharraf said that no country had contributed more in the fight against terrorism than Pakistan. He reiterated PakistanÂ’s resolve to combat terrorism and extremism and warned of strong punitive action against any illegal and terrorist activity from its soil.
He didn't evict Mullah Omar, though. He didn't have Hek rounded up. He didn't send anybody to comb Chitral for Binny.
Musharraf said the government had taken effective political and administrative measures in FATA, adding that these steps would bring peace and socio-economic development in the region and would lead to effective monitoring of the Pak-Afghan border.
By people from Jupiter...
He, however, stressed the need for strict implementation of plans to check cross-border movement of militants and eliminate foreign terrorists.
Yeah. It's time Karzai came down hard on the beturbanned nutbags who keep swarming across the border into Pakland.
The NSC meeting, attended by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and other members except Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, reviewed important developments at the national and international scene, particularly the post peace agreement situation in FATA and reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the earthquake-affected areas.
It's been over a year and they still haven't managed to rake off all the money...
Aziz said the government would extend all facilities including financial assistance for the development of FATA and the earthquake affected areas. In his presentation on the situation in FATA, NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai said that socio-economic activity was progressing in the area and several measures had been taken to control law and order.
"Oh, yeah? Like what?"
"I'll get back to you on that."
NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani said that foreign militants were resisting the peace agreement and were trying to sabotage the process in South Waziristan. Musharraf praised the ERRAÂ’s efforts for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the quake-affected areas and said that PakistanÂ’s successful strategy to deal with a natural calamity of such a large magnitude was being quoted as a textbook example across the world.